I presume you have seen the hint at
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2126&forum=27
regarding ACPI. That guy found satisfaction by disabling it in BIOS. I
see that you have tried ACPI fixes, but it may be worth a careful retry
after re-determining the proper command-line option. Is it just
something like
linux acpi=off
at the install command prompt. There is a HOWTO at:
http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.html
I have installed centos4.2 (on other MBs) without difficulty, but I do
recall several other threads re other OS installs on other MBs reporting
ACPI problems during install (but not after install) -- I guess the
install kernel doesn't always provide compatibility with all hw
environments.
Hmmm, now that I think of it, I recall centos installs having sporadic
difficulty with different CDROM devices. In particular, the ISO image
verification step often failed, but the install proceded ok, if
verification was skipped. Do you have other CDROMs you can try?
Another thought: have you tried text-mode install?
..jim
Michael J McCafferty wrote:
...and once it's running, it's slow. runnign top uses 3% CPU.
Quoting Michael J McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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
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