[Gllug] CentOS 4.2 install hangs right at the end

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:16:03PM +0000, Garry wrote:
> System:
> 
> - Tyan Thunder K8SR S2881G2NR
> - Dual Opteron 250 2.4Ghz
> - Broadcom Raidcore BC4852 sata raid card
> - 3 x 300GB disks in RAID5
> - CentOS 4.2 x86_64 / kernel 2.6.9-22.EL.x86_64
> 
> I have the RAID5 array configured and the proprietary raid card driver 
> loaded successfully at startup.  The install completes up to the very last 
> "Post-install configuration" then everything hangs. Same through 3 attempts. 
> Any ideas?

Try adding mem=nopentium to the boot options.

-- 
Bruce

A problem shared brings the consolation that someone else is now
feeling as miserable as you.
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