On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 02:21 -0800, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> Circumstances:
>
> The system is a hardware duplicate of a system that installed and works
> for many months. Running CentOS 4.x.
>
> The system was previously in service with CentOS 3.x and I'm trying to
> install CentOS 4.1 on it from downloaded CDs which have worked
> previously (these are the same CDs used to install the system that's
> working).
>
> Software RAID.
>
> Minimal packages
>
> System appears to install properly, then on first reboot halts with
> error:
>
> (note that this is hand copied, not cut-and-pasted, so there may be
> errors in spelling <frown):
>
> ...
> Creating block devices
> Creating root device
> Mounting root filesystem
> kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>
> and system halts with nothing else on screen.
>
> I even tried downloading the entire /boot partition contents from the
> working machine and installing the contents on the /boot partition on
> the local machine.
>
> Same problem.
>
> I was supposed to get this server into the data center; it's now 02:19.
> I'm going home to get a few hours sleep.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
Is this happening on the standard kernel from CentOS or a modified
kernel?
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