[Gllug] CentOS 4.2 install hangs right at the end

william pink will.pink at gmail.com
Mon May 19 15:36:41 UTC 2008


What about VC1 and 2 :o) ?

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Garry Heaton <garry at heaton6.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:

> Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > Garry Heaton wrote:
> >>>> 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.
> >>> see anything interesting on VC#3 VC#4 or VC#5 ?
> >>>
> >>> Also, why are you using such an old version of CentOS ?
> >>>
> >> How do I access VC#3, 4 etc? This was the last version of RHEL supported
> by
> >> Broadcom for this raid card.
> >
> > ALT+CTRL+F3 from the GUI install screen should take you to VC3, then
> > ALT+F4 / ALT+f5
> >
> >
> >
>
> When I access these virtual terminals the output stops so they're no use in
> diagnosing the freeze during the Post-Install phase since I have no access
> to VC3-7 following the freeze.
>
> Garry
>
>
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