CentOS - Nov 2012 - 6.3 installer keeps cycling in a 10 second countdown to boot

Hi.  I've been running CentOS 5 for ages.  (Thanks!)

I went to install 6.3 - I downloaded the 64-bit DVD 1 image, and put
it on a USB drive.  Booted into a screen that said boot will start in
10.. 9... 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. 10.. and so on, infinite
loop, the boot never starts.

I tried booting in text mode, but it doesn't boot, just goes back to the
menu.

Is there some way to find out why the centos installer refuses to start?

I used to have CentOS 5 on this system.  I'd expect 6 to work.

Thanks,
Aleksey

On 11/25/2012 04:51 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi.  I've been running CentOS 5 for ages.  (Thanks!)
> 
> I went to install 6.3 - I downloaded the 64-bit DVD 1 image, and put
> it on a USB drive.  Booted into a screen that said boot will start in
> 10.. 9... 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. 10.. and so on, infinite
> loop, the boot never starts.
> 
> I tried booting in text mode, but it doesn't boot, just goes back to
the menu.
> 
> Is there some way to find out why the centos installer refuses to start?
> 
> I used to have CentOS 5 on this system.  I'd expect 6 to work.
Have you checked the integrity of the image on the USB drive or the USB
drive itself? Have you Googled your problem to see if anybody else has
experienced the same thing?

Alternatively, you could download the net install iso (it's very small)
& burn a copy of that. Or if you have access to Apache somewhere, you
can copy the DVD iso to /var/www/html/ & do a network install from
there. Same thing goes for an NFS install (I've no idea of what
resources you have).

Cheers,

  Phil...

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Dear all,


   I install centos 6.3-64bit in a new server and also installed KVM using yum.
Then I create a new virtual machine(i686) to install windows xp, but it's
very slow, do you know why?


Server: CPU: i7 3370, Memory: 16GB.
Virtual machine:  1 cpu and 1GB ram.


KVM information: 
qemu      4223     1  9 15:10 ?        00:00:41 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M
rhel6.3.0 -cpu
SandyBridge,+osxsave,+tsc-deadline,+pdcm,+xtpr,+tm2,+est,+smx,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+monitor,+dtes64,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds,+vme
-enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name xpt1 -uuid
36020e9b-d9b8-e831-7278-22adab258263 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev
socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/xpt1.monitor,server,nowait -mon
chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime,driftfix=slew
-no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive
file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/xpt1.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none
-device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1
-drive if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device
ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -netdev
tap,fd=22,id=hostnet0 -device
rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:f5:5f:6a,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0
-device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:2 -vga std -device
intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device
hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device
virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5




Thanks and best regards,
Muiz

On 11/25/2012 04:51 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi.  I've been running CentOS 5 for ages.  (Thanks!)
excellent!
> 
> I went to install 6.3 - I downloaded the 64-bit DVD 1 image, and put
> it on a USB drive.  Booted into a screen that said boot will start in
> 10.. 9... 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. 10.. and so on, infinite
> loop, the boot never starts.
looks like your machine does not have the x86_64 capable cpu/bios combo
needed to boot the kernel. Have you tried using the livecd/dvd to boot
the machine and see if things work there ?

was it x86_64 that you were running CentOS-5 with ?

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