All, I am having a hardware issue... or maybe it's a software issue. Whatever it is is driving me nuts. It takes an hour to install a minimal install of CentOS 4.2 (tried 4.1 too), either the ServerCD or from the regular set of CD's. See it psyched me out, I thought it was hanging at /sbin/loader, but it was just going VERY slow... it takes about 10 to 15min to get past that point. Once it gets past that point, the installation program runs super slow. It's almost exactly as this person describes here: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Linux_Setup/Q_21378016.html
But none of the proposed fixes solve my problem. To top it all off, once the system is installed, it's glacially slow to boot up. Hardware: ASUS P4P800-MX-UAYZ Motherboard 1 80GB Western Digital SATA HDD No floppy No IDE CDROM Celeron 2.8Ghz 1GB Kingston PC2700 RAM CentOS 3.5, OpenBSD and Debian Sarge all install fine, at regular speed. I have 6 of these boards, all exhibit the same behavior. WTF ? It's not an option to not support CentOS 4. I have tried several different ISO images, from different mirrors, on different media, burned on different burners. I have tried USB CDROM (preferred method), and IDE CDROM. I tried different boards (same model of course), with different CPU's (2.53 and 2.8), and different RAM. I have tried disabling Audio, Floppy, USB, ACPI. I have tried the SATA in "Compatible" mode and "Enhanced" mode. Thoughts on boot flags, other BIOS settings ? I need to be able to customize each installation, but I can't have it take so freakin' long ! Yep, I Googled it, but maybe your suggestions will be better than those I found. Thanks In Advance, Mike -- ************************************************************ Michael J. McCafferty Principal, Security Engineer M5 Hosting 858-576-7325 Voice http://www.m5hosting.com ************************************************************ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
