Install Failed

[cjkeeme]

I had Proxmox test running on this brand new 2970 in a Raid 1. I then added 2 more drives and destroyed the Raid 1 configuration and built a Raid 10. The install went great. I then messed something up (not quite sure what), but everything broke.

No problem, just testing afterall, so I decided to reload Proxmox. Now I receive a "Installation Failed!" message and this error box pops up:

command 'chroot /target dpkg --force-confold --configure - a' failed with exit code 2 at /usr/bin/proxinstal line 151.

If I press CTRL-ALT-F2 I see this on the last 4 lines:

Setting up libblockfile1 (1.08-3)
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
unable to fsync updated status of 'liblockfile1': Input/output error
command 'chroot /target dpkg --force-confold --configure - a' failed with exit code 2 at /usr/bin/proxinstal line 151.

I then rebuilt the Raid 10 just in case something went wrong there and burned another CD and tried that with the same error. What am I doing wrong?

 

[peril]

try installing another os as a test - I doubt this is proxmox specific. If debian stable loads - and proxmox doesn't something is going on- but prove it - it only take like 10-15 minutes to to the iso base system install.

-Adrian

 

[cjkeeme]

I just installed CentOS 5 without any problems on the same machine. I'm $2300 in the hole on this 2970 if I can't get Proxmox to work.

Before installing CentOS I tried Proxmox again. I re-downloaded the ISO and burned to image. Same symptoms occurred, but this time it got to 90% complete before fail where as before it only made it to 83%. What should I try next?

I'm very confused.

 

[dietmar]

Test your hardware.

 

[cjkeeme]

I destroyed the Raid 10 and went for Raid 5 with the same drives and had no problems installing Proxmox this time. The Raid 10 configuration worked fine with CentOS/Asterisk, but fails with Proxmox.

What should I be checking? I suppose the question may be more of how should I check the drives? The Raid controller reports everything as optimal.

 

[dietmar]

What should I be checking? I suppose the question may be more of how should I check the drives? The Raid controller reports everything as optimal.

Most disk vendors provides some test utilities. Also, run memtest to verify that RAM is OK (grub boot option).