Edit boot kernel:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ init=/bin/bash
This will not load modules that maybe causing problems
February 19, 2009
Centos on MSI Wind notebook U100 – Ghost
Some bits of information that may help.
On a project taking one drive from Atom system into MSI U100.
I booted external usb dvd.
boot: linux repair nonet
this will run a repair without network. If you try a install or repair without the nonet, it will show a blue screeen with a bucnh of cryptic letters and freeze.
in my case i was able to run the upgrade option. I also created a new mbr since the old system was ide and the U100 is SATA. I wanted to make sure grup pointed to a sata drive instead of ide.
ref:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D47&ei=gMWdSaWrNZm0sQPL-MjLCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DInstaller%2BLinux%2Bsur%2Bun%2Bultra-portable%2BMSI%2BWind%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DEla
Realtek driver is on above link. the env proxy had to be set. leaving it blank would cause yum to fail.
also turned iptables off, but not sure if that was needed.