[BlueOnyx:14145] Re: BlueOnyx Installation Issues

[Manuel Duarte]

Thanks for the tip. I'll try the 6.3 version. I downloaded the 6.4 ISO image from the main USA site but found that the image was truncated at about 140Mbytes. Downloading from the NY/USA site I had better luck with ISO images that were in the 650MB range. However, same issue with 6.4 when installing. I'll download the 6.3 version and see if it will install without issues. This will hopefully isolate if it is a driver issue or not. Would be nice to install 6.4 successfully however!

Manuel

-----Original Message-----
From: Fungal Style [mailto:wayin at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 7:43 AM
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Cc: mduarte at sentex.net
Subject: RE: [BlueOnyx:14123] Re: BlueOnyx Installation Issues

Well an update from my post...

I tried in a vm... centos 6.3 bo works but 6.4 asked for the location of source. Now it i mount the 6.3 it will progress... so not likely a driver issue here... maybe image issue?

Will try from other location as i believe i grabbed from main US repository.

--- Original Message ---

From: "Michael Stauber" <mstauber at blueonyx.it>
Sent: 19 December 2013 6:44 AM
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
Cc: mduarte at sentex.net
Subject: [BlueOnyx:14123] Re: BlueOnyx Installation Issues

Hi Manuel,

> Just a quick question. I have tried installing BlueOnyx 5107R (CentOS) 
> on two different machines unsuccessfully. The issue is that I can boot 
> from the CD and progress successfully though several menus. However, I 
> get to one point and the setup menu complains that it cannot find the 
> distribution. I tried the installation on a Dell 17XX series blade and 
> an IBM X232 (both SCSI based
> systems) with exactly the same problem. Any idea of what I could be 
> doing wrong?

I replied to your earlier message with the response marked as [BlueOnyx:14114]

The installer shouldn't ask you for keyboard and language. That happens at a later time when the install has finished and you access the web based GUI for the first time.

If you're asked for keyboard and language settings during the install, then things already went wrong.

The typical reason for that is this:

The CD boots a mini Linux used for the install. That mini Linux uses a Kernel that's supplied on the CD and that kernel uses the drivers included on the CD to detect the hardware - such as CD ROMs.

It is most likely that this mini Linux doesn't have the drivers for the CD ROM that you are using for the install.

Yes, I know. It is a bit paradox. It got that far on one kernel (the 1st stage installer), but the kernel on the 2nd stage of the installer now can't see the CD ROM.

You can use CTRL + ALT + the function keys F1-F12 to tab through various shells. F1 shows the installer and F2 usually gives you a root shell. On that shell you can use "fdisk -l" or "mount" or "dmesg" to check and you'll see that the CD ROM didn't get initialized.

If you're using an external USB CD ROM, try to use another one or - at the worst - open the server and temporarily connect an IDE or SATA CD ROM just for the install.

Or sometimes it is sufficient to disconnect the USB CD-ROM as soon as the blue background of the installer shows. Just disconnect it for 2-3 seconds and reconnect. This should happen before the message "Detecting USB devices" (or similar) pops up.

You answered about the hardware in your most recent reply. What kind of CD-ROMs are you using in that servers?

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With best regards

Michael Stauber
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