RE: [CentOS] Centos 5.1 installation problems -- couldn't find devices
It seemed both attempts failed due to the installation program couldn't find either the SATA DVD drive or the SATA hard disk. However, it's hard to believe Centos 5.1 installation couldn't recognize these two SATA devices. I'm now stuck. Any suggestion or advice is much appreciated. CentOS more than likely will recognize the devices once they are on a controller it recognizes :) That model appears to use a recent Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) and is only sold with Vista. You could look at the bios and see if the Vendor enabled an option to adjust how the controller appears to the OS, look for a setting that says something like AHCI/Native/Legacy etc... I'm sure someone here has used such a recent system and has a solution. I recall someone here or on another list suggesting some kernel parameters that might need to be passed. jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.1 installation problems -- couldn't find devices
Thanks. Joseph, my box actually has Windows XP pre-installed (instead of Vista). So I'll check that option in my BIOS when I get back home, although I don't recall I've seen one. I'll also send out an email to this list to ask if someone else has solved similar problem. Let me know if there's other mailing list I can ask. Thanks, -Hui On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seemed both attempts failed due to the installation program couldn't find either the SATA DVD drive or the SATA hard disk. However, it's hard to believe Centos 5.1 installation couldn't recognize these two SATA devices. I'm now stuck. Any suggestion or advice is much appreciated. CentOS more than likely will recognize the devices once they are on a controller it recognizes :) That model appears to use a recent Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) and is only sold with Vista. You could look at the bios and see if the Vendor enabled an option to adjust how the controller appears to the OS, look for a setting that says something like AHCI/Native/Legacy etc... I'm sure someone here has used such a recent system and has a solution. I recall someone here or on another list suggesting some kernel parameters that might need to be passed. jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Regards, -Hui ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Centos 5.1 installation problems -- couldn't find devices
Hi, there, I just bought a Dell Inspiron 530 with the following basic configuration: Inspiron 530 Intel Core2 processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad Core Technology and 8MB cache SATA 0: Samsung HD501LJ(500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive(7200RPM)) SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S (16X DVD+/-RW Drive) I tried to install Centos 5.1 on it with dual boot (keep Windows XP partition) and got stuck on some strange issues. I hope one of you could shed some light on what I should do next. Here's the summary of my installation attempts. Attempt 1: I burned both an installation DVD (slow and verified) and installation CD #1. I tried them both and both failed due to no driver found. More specifically, at the step for what type of media contains the packages to be installed?, I chose Local CDROM, the result screen said No driver found and prompted me to Select driver from a list of drivers. I randomly chose a few but none worked. Attempt 2. I tried network installation. I chose HTTP when prompted for the media. I then specified the mirror.centos.orghttp://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/as the Web Site Name and /centos/5/os/i386/ http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/ as the Red Hat directory. It got the installation started successfully. However, at the step for partitioning the disk, I was prompted to choose the partition option and I checked the review and modify partitioning layout. Also, there's no drive shown in the select the drive(s) to use for this installation panel. When i clicked Next, a No drives Found message popped up, saying an error has occurred -- no valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. please check your hardware for the cause of this problem. It seemed both attempts failed due to the installation program couldn't find either the SATA DVD drive or the SATA hard disk. However, it's hard to believe Centos 5.1 installation couldn't recognize these two SATA devices. I'm now stuck. Any suggestion or advice is much appreciated. -- Regards, -Hui ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
