CentOS - May 2007 - Simple Install of x86_64 CentOS 5 is failing

It gets all the way through the install, and then when it reboots,
grub can't find the kernel.  Grub can't find the kernel because the
kernel was not instaled for some reason?  I looked at the box through
rescue mode and in /boot there is no kernel.

Any ideas what might have happened?

Cheers...james

On 5/23/07, James Olin Oden <james.oden at gmail.com>
wrote:
> It gets all the way through the install, and then when it reboots,
> grub can't find the kernel.  Grub can't find the kernel because the
> kernel was not instaled for some reason?  I looked at the box through
> rescue mode and in /boot there is no kernel.
>
> Any ideas what might have happened?
>
No idea without some idea about any errors generated during the
install, what kind of x86_64 hardware (cpu, mb, memory, disk type),
and what a simple install is, and if there were any errors listed in
the /root/*log files.

> Cheers...james
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"James Olin Oden" <james.oden at gmail.com> wrote:
> It gets all the way through the install, and then when it reboots,
> grub can't find the kernel.  Grub can't find the kernel because the
> kernel was not instaled for some reason?  I looked at the box through
> rescue mode and in /boot there is no kernel.
>
> Any ideas what might have happened?
>
> Cheers...james
Nice clean x86_64 install here:

[dave at spindle ~]# uname -a
Linux spindle.local.davenjudy.org 2.6.21.1 #1 SMP Wed May 16 21:19:02 
MDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[dave at spindle ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5 (Final)
[dave at spindle ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 15
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 1000.000
cache size      : 512 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 
3dnowext 3dnow up
bogomips        : 1995.39
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp

This is on a HP Pavilion zv6015us laptop.  The only problem I has was 
getting the wireless working.  Loading bcm43xx froze the system.  I went 
back to ndiswrapper which had a less dramatic stability problem that 
went away with the 1.43 version.  I also went to the current kernel from 
kernel.org since that way the laptop's SD card reader works.

Cheers,
Dave

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