On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 23:47 +0100, LinUsr wrote: > Craig, > Thanks for your help. > I've tried text mode. It didn't help, the system stalls forever on disk format stage... > Also, I've tried passing "nofb" flag (as recommended in Release notes for some display types) and it didn't help. > When the system stalls the keyboard becomes inoperable (the system will not respond to keyboard, and if CapsLock key is pressed the CapsLock LED will not light)... > I'm not sure there is a critical problem with disks because it is possible to install the old RedHat 7.2 or Windows XP to the machine. The only unusual thing about the machine is that it has dual CPU (but still the old RedHat 7.2 installs OK!). > I tried both WorkStation and Server installations and they both failed... > Also, I tried the Media Verification option (to verify that the installation CD is correct) and it passed OK. > Anyway, I'll try to re-create the installation CD again... ---- that's really odd that it should crash on disk format... if a disk passes media check...you gotta believe that it's good. you might want to run memtest just to rule out the issue. I imagine you could use an alternate console like I described before 'after booting' before going in to disk druid, and run fdisk, mkfs to create the partitions and the filesystems and just select the already created partitions in disk druid but not format them again. Your suggestion that RH 7.2 works suggests to me that you have some odd type of disk controller (SCSI ?) that might not be supported any longer...do you know what drive controller you have in that thing? It does seem to be some type of hardware problem. Craig
