Try text installation, I used to have similar problem with graphics installation. Mirek Dne 31.7.2019 v 15:32 John Chludzinski napsal(a): > 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. >> >>