3.9 Centos Version

[tazzydemon (Julian)]

Although in my post Which Centos is 3.9 - #2 by Luna Flyer saidi the Centos version was 1611,

I have my doubts as 3.9 will not install (same as 3.8.16) on my Braswell 3700 mobo (in UEFI) whereas Centos 1611 flies through. Any confirmation?

[phillxnet (Philip Guyton)]

@tazzydemon I think your experience can be explained by the following open issue:

Update the installer using latest CentOS 7.x

Which you commented on in Feburary.

Unfortunately the timing of CentOS 1611 release for the last iso remaster was just a little too close, please see @suman comments in that issue on this. However once installed a Rockstor system will then update to the latest 1611 release.

That would appear to explain the installer discrepancy.

If you take a look at the rockstor-iso repo you may very well be able to master your own iso using the 1611 variant from upstream and any feedback on your experience doing that would be really handy for when the time comes to remaster the next Rockstor ISO.

Do feel free to add comments to that issue so that we might gather related info on this.

Either that or we have a bug in how the latest iso is constructed (most likely relating to UEFI install I would guess). Please do review the script and ks.cfg file used in that repo.

I have linked back to this forum thread from the above issue in an attempt to tie such reports together.

Hope that helps to explain the discrepancy, ie our installer is based on 1511 but the first update takes things to 1611.

Also linking here to a former forum post of yours re UEFI install failing on Braswell N3700 UEFI which is already linked in the above issue.

3.8.16 seems to not like Braswell N3700 UEFI

Ever since updating to 3.6.16 and rebooting that’s the end of my Asrock N3700 ITX Rockstor install. Reinstall seems impossible in GPT/UEFI although it works in Bios/MBR. Numerous timeouts and eventually drop to dracut occur when trying to Uefi boot a usb (or DVD). It just doesn’t work at all. I had enough trouble installing the system on 14 because the network had to be configured manually. Any ideas? This might have also been after a motherboard self update. Not sure about that one. EDIT Mot…

[tazzydemon (Julian)]

@phillxnet

rebooting that’s the end of my Asro

I did build a couple of isos using the script. It took a while to get that working - one has to yum a few things such as isomd5suml syslinuxinstall isohybridl createrepo mkisofs (example only). I also had to edit the script a bit, changing some shell=false to shell=true.
With the latest Rockstor iso as a seed (and the system updated to, hopefully, centos 1611: Fail. With a Centos 1611 Minimum as a seed: Also fail. That was a surprise.

They always end this way:with loads of dracut timeouts along the road: