Hi, I tried to install Centos7 x86_64 minimal 1503-01 from an USB flash drive on my old Dell Latitude E6500 laptop. boots up in text mode, switches text resolution, writes: Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen Reached Target Paths Reached Target Basic System. then hangs for some time, eventually starting dracut emergency shell. log says: multipathd: sdb: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec interesting: sdb is the internal 240GB kingston SSD drive (existing ntfs bitlocker partition recognized as sdb1) sda is the write protected USB stick, recognised as CDROM drive. 4GB rom intel 45 express chipset mobile intel GMA 4500MHD graphics intel 5100AGN wifi what to try next? any additional infos I can give you? thnx in advance. -- Best regards, Rainer mailto:rfu at oudeis.org
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 08:55:58PM +0200, Rainer F?genstein wrote:> Hi, > > I tried to install Centos7 x86_64 minimal 1503-01 from an USB > flash drive on my old Dell Latitude E6500 laptop. > [...] > what to try next? any additional infos I can give you?At a bare minimum, I'd try using CentOS 7 1804: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/ 1503 is 3 years old, perhaps you'll have better luck with something more up to date. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
Hello Jonathan, Saturday, May 12, 2018, 9:39:01 PM, you wrote:> At a bare minimum, I'd try using CentOS 7 1804: > http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/thanks; after some waiting time, 1804 now keeps repeating "dracut initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts" for a while, then drops into the emergency shell. no suspicious error messages in the log. did change SATA mode from ATA to AHCI in the BIOS, but this didn't change anything. -- Best regards, Rainer mailto:rfu at oudeis.org
Does this laptop have the Nvidia Quadro graphics option? If so try booting with NOMODESET. Also, if available in the BIOS turn OFF switchable graphics. Mike
Hello, On Sat, 12 May 2018 20:55:58 +0200 Rainer F?genstein <rfu at oudeis.org> wrote:> I tried to install Centos7 x86_64 minimal 1503-01 from an USB > flash drive on my old Dell Latitude E6500 laptop. > > boots up in text mode, switches text resolution, writes: > > Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen > Reached Target Paths > Reached Target Basic System. > > then hangs for some time, eventually starting dracut emergency > shell. log says: > > multipathd: sdb: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec > multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec > > interesting: > sdb is the internal 240GB kingston SSD drive (existing ntfs bitlocker > partition recognized as sdb1) > > sda is the write protected USB stick, recognised as CDROM drive. > > 4GB rom > intel 45 express chipset > mobile intel GMA 4500MHD graphics > intel 5100AGN wifi > > what to try next? any additional infos I can give you?For the sake of the archives.. I ran into the exact same problem yesterday: trying to install CentOS 7 on a good old Dell Latitude E6500 (the everything-1908 iso set into a USB flashdrive) and no way to boot. Worked around the issue by booting from the LiveGNOME one! Then installed to disk beside Windows and CentOS 6, now everything is fine. Thanks to Rainer for his help, in private. Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20191009/3d9a5949/attachment-0002.sig>