John Chludzinski wrote: > 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. > Please don't top post. I've seen things like that, but only when it can't load a filesystem it expects to be there. You can't log in as root? Did you not set a password for root during the install? mark > > > 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos