I'm trying to reinstall CentOS on a machine I've reconditioned for it, but for reasons I can't fathom, when the installation disk comes up and prompts for the install type, and I type either <enter> (graphics isntall) or "linux text"<enter>, after it loads the initrd image, the machine shuts off. It's an older machine I built myself (and ran CentOS on for a number of years), AMD Athlon 64 x2, 2GB of memory, 2 SATA hard drives, ECS GE6100PM-M2 motherboard. I should probably even know the answer to this one, but I'm stumped. Any suggestions? Thanks.
2011/3/11 Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com>:> I'm trying to reinstall CentOS on a machine I've reconditioned for it,is it really working? check for broken memory chips and so..> but for reasons I can't fathom, when the installation disk comes up > and prompts for the install type, and I type either <enter> (graphics > isntall) or "linux text"<enter>, after it loads the initrd image, the > machine shuts off. > > It's an older machine I built myself (and ran CentOS on for a number > of years), AMD Athlon 64 x2, 2GB of memory, 2 SATA hard drives, ECS > GE6100PM-M2 motherboard. >What error messages it displays? -- Eero
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark said the following on 11/03/11 04:51:> Any suggestions?If is not an issue related to the hardware try with linux text acpi=off Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tuna fish. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk15tNAACgkQ3kWu7Tfl6ZT8SgCfRTV0BSZNFDl/lNbNCZyPX77b SWUAniECY404s3LFW1D4EsyUYho3PfWF =bx2u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Glad you got it working. Most of the power supply checkers aren't worth it. I checked 3 power supplies with a checker and all 3 didnt work on the pc i was working on. It was the power supplies, i took one out of a running pc and the one being worked on powered up. So it is just easier just to swap the power supply out to start with. ? Chris ----- Original Message ----- From:Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com> To:CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Cc: Sent:Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:59 PM Subject:Re: [CentOS] Installation failure On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Chris Weisiger <cweisiger at bellsouth.net> wrote:> Try checking the power supply, swap in another one ?from a different pc. >Yeah, I figured that out about half an hour ago and got it going. Shoulda thought of that up front. Interestingly, I have a power supply tester I bought at CompUSA before they left SoCal, and it said that power supply was fine.? Ha ha ha.? I think I need a new one, one that actually works.... Thanks, everyone. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos