CentOS - Nov 2005 - Installation problems on old IBM server

I'm trying to install CentOS 4.2 on an old IBM x300 server, but it hangs 
during the boot from cd. The last entries I can see before it dies are the 
two "agpgart" lines. I've been playing around with bios settings
(video
settings and serial settings since the serial driver is the next thing 
going on in the kernel) and boot params (noapic, acpi=off etc) but I just 
can't get this thing up and running. It's been working like a charm (and
still does) with CentOS 3.

Any tips?

Regards,
Harald
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I've installed WBEL4 (so CentOS should be fine too, though it could be
that some support has been droped from respin 2?) on a few xSeries
eServer 300s without any problems at all as far as I can remember. Are
those the systems you're talking about?

Some of the larger xSeries boxes have given me problems with PXE and
Kickstart but I'm sure I've performed PXE/Kickstart and CD-based
installs on e300s.

Can you boot into "linux rescue" from the CD? Does "linux
text" get
you any further?

Will.


On 30/11/05, HaraldFinn?s <spamcatcher at lantrix.no>
wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install CentOS 4.2 on an old IBM x300 server, but it
hangs
> during the boot from cd. The last entries I can see before it dies are the
> two "agpgart" lines. I've been playing around with bios
settings (video
> settings and serial settings since the serial driver is the next thing
going
> on in the kernel) and boot params (noapic, acpi=off etc) but I just
can't
> get this thing up and running. It's been working like a charm (and
still
> does) with CentOS 3.
>
> Any tips?
>
> Regards,
> Harald
>
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