After finally completing and trying to reboot, the machine goes into "Emergency Mode" and asks that I log in as root. That fails and the machine becomes completely unresponsive. I tried the minimum install and got the same result. Hard to diagnose an unresponsive machine. On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:54 PM isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com> wrote: > Pete Biggs writes: > > On Tue, 2019-07-30 at 13:24 -0400, John Chludzinski wrote: > > > I've been doing a CentOS 7.6.1810 net-install since last night. The > machine > > > seems ok but has been stuck with "performing post-installation setup > tasks" > > > for hours. This is an old Dell T5400 box, so it isn't blazing fast but > ... > > > > > > Is there a way to pull up its skirt (so to speak) and check/monitor the > > > installation activity while installing it? Having already started the > > > installation? > > > > > Yes, there are shells running on the alternative consoles, so if you > > are doing a GUI install then do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the text console > > - that console is the one running the install and may have some error > > messages. Do Alt-F2 from there to get to a shell prompt with root > > privileges, Alt-F3 for the anaconda log, Alt-F4 for the storage log, > > Alt-F5 for other log messages and Alt-F6 to get back to the GUI > > install. > > It is my experience too that starting with CentOS 7, "post-installation > setup tasks" take up an inproportionate amount of time during. All I was > able to find out was that the kickstart %post section was not the culprit. > > It would be nice to have some detailed documentation what these > post-installation tasks actually are. ISTR a lot of dracut this and that > showing up in top. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >