CentOS - Oct 2007 - Supermicro X7DVL-E and Xeon L5320 installation problems

Tearing our hair out on this one.  Trying to install CentOS 5 x86_64  
on a Supermicro X7DVL-E with 2 Xeon L5320 quad core CPUs, 3Ware SATA  
RAID controller in a mirrored setup and 4 GB of memory.  Installation  
crashes at random places while copying the files.  We've run  
memtest86 for 24 hours without any errors, replaced the RAID  
controller, motherboard and disks, but still no luck.

Any thoughts, hints or LARTs appreciated.

--Chris

Chris Boyd wrote:
> Tearing our hair out on this one.  Trying to install CentOS 5 x86_64 
> on a Supermicro X7DVL-E with 2 Xeon L5320 quad core CPUs, 3Ware SATA 
> RAID controller in a mirrored setup and 4 GB of memory.  Installation 
> crashes at random places while copying the files.  We've run memtest86 
> for 24 hours without any errors, replaced the RAID controller, 
> motherboard and disks, but still no luck.
>
> Any thoughts, hints or LARTs appreciated.
I had similar issues on a recent install.  It turned out to be errors on 
the install media (which I have gotten lazy about checking).  I reburned 
the DVD (with verify enabled this time) and it worked just fine afterwards.

Best,

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:29:26PM -0500, Chris Boyd
wrote:
> Tearing our hair out on this one.  Trying to install CentOS 5 x86_64  
> on a Supermicro X7DVL-E with 2 Xeon L5320 quad core CPUs, 3Ware SATA  
> RAID controller in a mirrored setup and 4 GB of memory.  Installation  
> crashes at random places while copying the files.  We've run  
> memtest86 for 24 hours without any errors, replaced the RAID  
> controller, motherboard and disks, but still no luck.
We have X7DBR-3 with 2x X5355 8 GB of RAM, nothing fancy but work fine here.
How do you install? network/cdrom ? how does your kickstart looks like?

Try to add a serial console to log the output or syslog=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
to remote syslog.

Tru
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Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance)
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B
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