[ale] CentOS 7 install driving me mad

[Jim Kinney]

Ugh. The boot kernel is not setting up all the usual virtual
filesystems and systemd is choking on how to continue without the data
it needs.
Granted, getting centos7 repackaged into a 32 bit format is useful for
tiny systems and _old_ systems, it really doesn't work well enough to
justify the effort given that centos 6 support will continue for
another 4 years.
I never thought I'd say this but... if you _really_ insist on using a a
32 bit OS _and_ need it to be long term supported, use Debian.
On Fri, 2016-06-03 at 11:36 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I'm trying to do a custom install of CentOS 7 on i586.
> 
> I've started with http://vega.sra-tohoku.co.jp/~kabe/linux/c7-i586/pe
> ntium.html  and have a boot install USB stick
> 
> This is the last thing before the device seems to "hang".  I'm
> struggling at this point because I don't really know what it is
> doing, waiting on, etc.
> 
> [ 55.929937] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 7142688 512-byte logical blocks: (3.65
> GB/3.40 GiB)
> [ 55.943552] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 15140855 512-byte logical blocks:
> (7.75 GB/7.21 GiB)
> [ 55.953168] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> [ 55.957986] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 55.966454] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> [ 55.971338] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
> [ 55.983089] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
> [ 55.988454] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [ 55.996853] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 56.017750] sda: 
> [ 56.023559] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> [ 56.056997] sdb: sdb1
> [ 56.063058] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [ 56.381233] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+pci:0000:00:01.0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.403093] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+pci:0000:00:01.0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.417404] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+pci:0000:00:01.0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.429521] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+hid:0003:046D:C52B.0003: No such file or directory
> [ 56.441345] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+hid:0003:046D:C52B.0003: No such file or directory
> [ 56.453516] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+pci:0000:00:0c.0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.464649] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:host0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.475340] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+hid:0003:046D:C52B.0005: No such file or directory
> [ 56.487204] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:host1: No such file or directory
> [ 56.498468] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+hid:0003:046D:C52B.0006: No such file or directory
> [ 56.510947] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:0:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.521795] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+usb:2-1:1.0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.532498] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:host2: No such file or directory
> [ 56.544694] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:2:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.556158] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:0:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.567008] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:2:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.577789] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:0:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.588564] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:0:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.599357] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:2:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.610230] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:2:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.620997] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:2:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.631803] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:2:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.642607] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:0:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.653543] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:0:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.664500] systemd-journald[81]: no db file to read
> /run/udev/data/+scsi:2:0:0:0: No such file or directory
> [ 56.700149] systemd[1]: sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:0c.0-ata1-
> host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda.device changed dead -> plugged
> [ 56.790279] systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2dpath-
> pci\x2d0000:00:0b.1\x2dusb\x2d0:1:1.0\x2dscsi\x2d0:0:0:0.device
> changed dead -> plugged
> [ 56.820177] systemd[1]: dev-sdb.device changed dead -> plugged
> [ 57.320128] systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2dpath-
> pci\x2d0000:00:0b.1\x2dusb\x2d0:1:1.0\x2dscsi\x2d0:0:0:0\x2dpart1.dev
> ice changed dead -> plugged
> 
> Here is the full log:
> 
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2486826/boot.log
> 
> 
> How can I debug past this point?  Can I use rd.shell to break and try
> to manually run anaconda? 
> 
> 
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James P. Kinney III

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gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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