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@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
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