Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0: panic installing i386 on old Acer Desktop

2011-10-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 17:05 -0400, Rilindo Foster wrote: > No ideas yet, but let me ask this: if you boot into rescue mode mode with a > CentOS 6 disk, what happens if you were modify partitions and format the file > systems within the shell? > > It would be interesting to see if you were to ge

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0: panic installing i386 on old Acer Desktop

2011-10-16 Thread Rilindo Foster
No ideas yet, but let me ask this: if you boot into rescue mode mode with a CentOS 6 disk, what happens if you were modify partitions and format the file systems within the shell? It would be interesting to see if you were to get a kernel panic at that point or not. - Rilindo Foster http://m

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0: panic installing i386 on old Acer Desktop

2011-10-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 14:28 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > I tried, based on *old* memories, adding kernel arguments of noapic and > nolapic (IIRC). Still no joy. > Amazing what brainstorms hit after you click "send". Unfortunately, the thoughts didn't help. I tried again using the kerne

[CentOS] CentOS 6.0: panic installing i386 on old Acer Desktop

2011-10-16 Thread William L. Maltby
Well, after much trial and tribulation I got to the point I could nfs mount the CentOS 6.0 i386 iso image and try an install. So I stuck in the net install CD (latest from CentOS), mounted the nfs iso image and gave it several shots. It goes swimmingly until I click "write disks". Then there's a