CentOS 5 Hardware :: Installation - Centos 5.2 On HP Rp5700 Desktop \ Begins The Boot Process Up To Discovering The PCI Stuff And Just Locks Up, No Response?

Mar 28, 2009

I am trying to install CentOS 5.2 on an HP rp5700 desktop unit. These units were originally sold as a Point of Sales unit I believe, but HP also markets it as a high life cycle server for SMB market.I tried to load CentOS on this unit via CD (created from downloaded ISO of course). It presents the initial CentOS banner page and waits for the obligatory "enter" to continue. It begins the boot process up to discovering the PCI stuff and just locks up, no response. I have to power down to restart.Since this does not even get to the point of installing. I am at a loss what to do next. Has anyone had a similar issue with other PCs.The boot stops at the lineACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)

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CentOS 5 :: System Locks Up During Boot While Trying To Load First-run Configuration?

Aug 10, 2010

I just installed CentOS 5.5 on my machine and the installation appeared to complete successfully (it said it was successful). When I rebooted and tried to get into my new CentOS, my system completely locked up during the startup. According to the progress bar, it got stuck on the first-run configuration. I have not yet been able to boot into the OS. I am attempting to create a dual-boot system. I already have Windows XP installed on a separate hard drive. The GRUB loader works fine and I can choose either OS to boot into, it's just the CentOS won't finish booting. Windows is completely unaffected.Since I'm assuming the problem stems from the installation, I'll list the steps I followed.

1. Obtained the .iso image from a network drive at work (I am installing on my work machine). The image is dated May 17, 2010.

2. Burned the image to a DVD.

3. Booted from the DVD and chose to install using the graphical interface.

4. Checked the DVD. The installer verified that CentOS could be installed from it.

5. Picked my installation and keyboard languages.

6. Chose to create a custom layout for my partitions. On my second hard drive, I created the following partitions:

- Swap (8196MB, twice my system RAM)
- ext3 (100MB, mounted to /boot)
- ext3 (remaining drive space, mounted to /)

7. Picked my timezone (did not use UTC since Windows will handle setting the system time)

8. Set my root password. You don't get to know ;)

9. Did not choose to install any additional packages besides the KDE desktop. I wasn't sure what I'd need so I checked the option to customize later.

10. The installation than started and 15 minutes later, it told me it had succeeded and to remove the DVD and reboot.

11. Upon rebooting, I let the GRUB loader boot into CentOS (side note, I'd prefer if Windows was the default OS but that's something I should be able to Google on my own).

12. The startup looks like it's going fine until it gets to the first-run configuration, at which point the entire system locks up and requires a hard reboot. I've tried several times since and it always locks up at the same point.

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Feb 19, 2010

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Sep 19, 2010

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I need to increase the size of the Windows 7 partition (c:windowswinsxs seems to be something not easily remedied).

GParted didn't work in moving things around (bad sector) so I wiped out its partition (# 2 out of 3) and I was able to increase the size of the Windows 7 partition (I can reinstall CentOS easily and not much work lost).

Except ... no more grub menu (unsurprising). This incantation does allow me to boot into Windows 7.

Is there any way of rebuilding the grub menu short of reinstalling CentOS (5.5)?

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Aug 6, 2009

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Sep 13, 2010

I am new to Linux, moreso to CentOS, but I can definitely follow walk-throughs and tutorials easily enough.
I am installing a webserver for our small business and decided to go the postfix/dovecot route.

I installed everything based on the walkthrough on linuxmailcom and eve put squirrelmail on top, so users can access via webmail. I am able to send mail just fine, users/folders are setup and working as they should for sending, but I am unable to receive any mail. MX records have been updated to direct mail @mydomain to this mailserver machine. The problem I am having is with port 25... If I do 'telnet x.x.x.x 25' I get no response, just a timeout then back to command prompt. My other ports are fine, and I get the banner for each 110, 143, etc... all ports but 25 work internally and externally, forwarded.

I tried turning off firewall rules, and still, nothing from port 25. Should I try to have postfix listen on another port by editing its' master.cf, or is this is problem with my centOS/Linux instead. I didn't know where to go with this, so I thought the best place to start was here.

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Mar 23, 2010

I just installed a fresh CentOS5.4 and started httpd & mysqld and did the following testing

1. named the following file as index.php and put to /var/www/html (default DocumentRoot)

<?php
echo 'connecting...';
$conn = mysql_connect('localhost','root','');
if(empty($conn))

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Aug 15, 2010

I had centos 5-5 server with 6G of RAM and 4 core cpu 3GHZ i installed bind 9.7.1-p2 on my server with multi thread support there are a lot of dns requests on my server , about 2500 Packets/sec and 3Mbit UDP traffic but my server response week to most of them.

For example when i use nslookup or dig command to query Yahoo.com the response from server maybe deliver about 5 Sec or become timed out , but sometimes response time less than 1 sec!

I don't know why, perhaps kernel works week so i decided to do the following :

But the problem didn't solved

I previously had Freebsd with same version of bind and same configuration and everything worked fine.

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Nov 21, 2010

I have strange issue on Centos 5.5 server.I have static IP address (192.168.58.2) on eth1 card and can't get ping response from some sites.PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.

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Jul 22, 2010

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==============================================================
Package Installation
Error running transaction[code]...

How I can reinstall CentOS(Do not lose important data)?Does there have any authoritative description?

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Jan 24, 2009

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Here is my most recent file for an example made when trying to compile up-imapproxy :
gcc -g -O2 -I. -I./include -c -o src/icc.o src/icc.c
gcc -g -O2 -I. -I./include -c -o src/main.o src/main.c
src/main.c: In function "int main(int, char**)":
src/main.c:618: error: invalid conversion from *void* to *void* (*)(void*)
src/main.c:618: error: initializing argument 3 of int pthread_create(pthread_t*, const pthread_attr_t*, void* (*)(void*), void*)
src/main.c:646: error: invalid conversion from int* to socklen_t*
src/main.c:646: error: initializing argument 3 of int accept(int, sockaddr*,socklen_t*)
src/main.c:675: error: invalid conversion from void* to void* (*)(void*)
src/main.c:675: error: initializing argument 3 of int pthread_create(pthread_t*, const pthread_attr_t*, void* (*)(void*), void*)
make: *** [src/main.o] Error 1

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Aug 11, 2009

I cannot get either sendmail or postfix to send a 220 response, nor respond with details. See below for sample telnet output. Details: I have a server that requires email, but only for light use. I'm definitely not an expert, but I have set up a sendmail configuration on a previous server. I tried to configure sendmail first and then postfix later, when I couldn't get sendmail working. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, but I have a feeling the following might yield some important information. Note: this is the result for Postfix, but virtually the same thing happened with sendmail, too. That is, initially the telnet connection would close immediately. Afterwords, I could connect a second time but then it never responded with a 220 banner nor any 250's.

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Oct 3, 2009

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Can anyone tell me the the solution to work simultaneously both xp and centos without the need of shutting down and restarting There maybe or may not be the solution...but i find the pleasure to know if there is for example, remote desktop connection in windows xp, is there any solution, we can work on windows via centos or vice versa ( in the same machine),

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Sep 8, 2009

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Running the command /sbin/lspci -v reveals the following about the wireless card:

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Smeiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)

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Aug 4, 2010

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Apr 1, 2010

My Dell poweredge server running CentOS 5.4 and booting kernel-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5. All boot processes seem okay and the graphical screens for CentOS operate, but just before the desktop loads the screen goes blank and the arrow/cursor is being circled by small spheres. This remains indefinitely. While the arrow is being circled, here are the results of 'getinfo.sh device'

Quote:==================== BEGIN uname -rmi ====================
2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 i686 i386
==================== END uname -rmi ====================

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Jul 29, 2010

I'm currently in the last steps of migrating a CentOS mailserver to the x64 version.However, under the old 32 bit version, I was using XRDP to access the Centos box from my Windows boxes.However I can't seem to find the XRDP package in the standard repos so this is prompting me to look at possible alternatives (XRDP was incompatible with my windows 7 box anyway soI had to RDP to another server of ours running 2003 to RDP into the mailserver which was far from ideal).Basically, I'd like to be able to seamlessly access the Centos box with a standard RDP client.

I know VNC Server/Clients would be an option but RDP gives me the freedom of any windows box being able to access the server on the same adress/port without installing software on any windows box I encounter.Are there any viable alternatives to XRDP ?There's no "add-on" to VNC server that could enable it to accept RDP connections ?

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Aug 7, 2009

i can't seem to get a fresh install to boot on a Acer Aspire T160 desktop computer, after the install finishes (basic install, command line only) it gets past 'Verifying DMI Pool.......' but then nothing, it just hangs, no Grub messages, nothing. Here is my hardware/config

Proc: Sempron 3200
Mem: 512 MB
/dev/hda1 110GB / Bootable
/dev/hda2 4GB Swap
/dev/md0 150GB /home
/dev/sda1 RAID
/dev/sdb1 RAID

i have tried RAID1 and RAID0 for md0, no change, i've also disconnected the raid all together and just installed on the IDE drive, still nothing. I noticed the BIOS supports hardware RAID but i have that disabled from past experiences and opting for software raid instead. i've gone through 'linux rescue' and reinstalled Grub, rebuilt raids and checked disks.

an interesting thing happens tho if i just have the IDE drive plugged in and nothing else... i get a BIOS message asking to plug in a bootable disk, does this mean it doesn't see my linux install at all? doesn't know to pass the boot along to /dev/hda?

i'm running out of ideas, tho neither have i tried installing to the raid... nor have i tried any other distros (Fedora, Ubuntu) on this machine yet.

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Nov 10, 2009

I just upgraded by box from Fedora Core 9 to Centos 5.2. Finally!I have a 500GB SATA drive, it's partitioned into three equal size slices, hda1 through 3. The old Fedora was on hda1, I installed the new Centos on hda3. I instructed the installer to write the MBR to /dev/hda, not /dev/hda3. Fdisk says I have sector 0 unused.First, the system wouldn't boot - it just looped through the BIOS, rebooting over and over again. The BIOS sees the disk, but it never loaded Grub. I tried re-running grub-install /dev/hda, and not I get a Grub Error 17 after stage 1.5 loads.

I can boot from rescue OK, the grub.conf man menu.lst look fine, it's pointing to "root (hd0,2)". It's either the BIOS that can't find the MBR, or the MBR can't find Grub.When I looked at the disk with fdisk after the install, hda1 was still marked bootable, hda3 was not, so I swapped bootable flags but that has not made a difference. I also appended the new grub to the old grub thinking I could get the MBR (if it is there) to load the old grub and thence find the new Centos, but that didn't work either.Mobo is an old Shuttle AK35.Any ideas? Did I mess up by not telling the system to put the MBR on /dev/hda3? Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling?

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Jun 9, 2009

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Jan 26, 2011

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# mdadm.conf written out by anaconda
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