Am Do, den 21.07.2005 schrieb Peter Farrow um 10:03:
> I have a K8S-MX Asus Athlon 64 Motherboard with a 754 pin 3000+ CPU,
> which I cam trying to install 4.1 Centos 64 bit.
>
> The problem seems to arise when installing onto Mirrored disks, I have
> noticed that from Centos 4 onwards it tries to rebuild the arrays as it
> installs which slows the whole process right down across all platforms I
> have tried it on.
Don't know whether I understand you correctly, but RAID1 array sync is
started with firstboot after the installation finished.
> In addition, the install process bails out at random times with random
> errors eg. "Disk Full", "error loading this package or that package",
> Error reading DVD etc... now I have burnt several copies of the DVD,
> tested them fully, tried installing from CD, even changed the hardware
> to a twin Opteron system, changed the RAM changed this disks and tried
> everything but it still seems really touch and go as to wether the
> install will complete.
>
> I haven't managed it yet on the Asus platform it took about 12 goes on
> the opteron platform. Yet Centos 3.4 installs no problem.
That can be caused by bad cabling (length + quality) because kernel 2.6
is more sensible for standards. It can too help to deactivate DMA during
install with: linux ide=nodma.
> Finally the last straw was the boot loader problem with occurs either
> immediately after reboot after install or on one of the boots soon
> after, and I have to do this to fix it:
That is a known issue and filed in bugzilla.redhat.com. Didn't happen
for my platform, grub was correctly installed, just not placed into both
RAID1 drive's MBRs.
> Pete
Alexander
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