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2007 Dec 10
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Issues installing x86_64 5.1 on Ultra 40
...e x86_64 version of CentOS
5.1. The machine is using the NVidia CK804 chipset and has SATA disks.
It also has 16GB's of memory which prompted us to upgrade the BIOS on
the machine from 1.1 to 1.6 per this (we also have the two quadro
cards):
http://docs.sun.com/source/819-3954-18/index.html#0_37092
The install goes fine up until the installer is trying to format the
disks. Part of the way through it simply dies and pops up an error
saying that the installer couldn't format the LVM volume and we have to
reboot.
An examination of dmesg output shows that there are many SATA errors
occurin...