CentOS - Oct 2009 - problem installing centos 5.3 on IBM x3200 m2

Hi,
I am trying to install centos 5.3 on ibm x3200 m2 server. The problem
appears when the installer is about to finish the installation. It detects
the RAID correctly, but it doesn't finish formatting the root partition. I
tried the default partition layout and also a custom one, but it always ends
with the same message:
An error occurred trying to format /. this problem is serious and the
install cannot continue.

I also checked the error console (ctrl+alt+F4) and it writes:
<3> sd 0:1:10:0: rejecting I/O to offline device

lspci says that the machin has an:
LSI Logic SAS1064ET PCI-Express SCSI controller
Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 Ethernet

Has anybody an idea, how to fix this?

BR
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Update!
I tried to install Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 on this box and they both
installed without problems.

BR

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Janez Kosmrlj <postnalista at
googlemail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to install centos 5.3 on ibm x3200 m2 server. The problem
> appears when the installer is about to finish the installation. It detects
> the RAID correctly, but it doesn't finish formatting the root
partition. I
> tried the default partition layout and also a custom one, but it always
ends
> with the same message:
> An error occurred trying to format /. this problem is serious and the
> install cannot continue.
>
> I also checked the error console (ctrl+alt+F4) and it writes:
> <3> sd 0:1:10:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
>
> lspci says that the machin has an:
> LSI Logic SAS1064ET PCI-Express SCSI controller
> Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 Ethernet
>
> Has anybody an idea, how to fix this?
>
> BR
>
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Janez Kosmrlj wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to install centos 5.3 on ibm x3200 m2 server. The problem 
> appears when the installer is about to finish the installation. It 
> detects the RAID correctly, but it doesn't finish formatting the root 
> partition. I tried the default partition layout and also a custom one, 
> but it always ends with the same message: 
> An error occurred trying to format /. this problem is serious and the 
> install cannot continue.
> 
> I also checked the error console (ctrl+alt+F4) and it writes:
> <3> sd 0:1:10:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
> 
> lspci says that the machin has an:
> LSI Logic SAS1064ET PCI-Express SCSI controller
> Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5722 Ethernet
> 
> Has anybody an idea, how to fix this?
Hmmm, my employer has 5.3 installed on similar hardware:

# lspci
05:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1064ET 
PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 02)

We never had any issues installing. Not to sound so simple, but did you 
do a media check on the installation CD/DVD before trying to install?

Regards,
Max