[CentOS] Laptop hd incorrect
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Aug 12 18:48:53 UTC 2009
At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:07:17 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
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> Thanks for the reply! Looking at the specs the hd is sata. Also the
> documents for rhel are they the same for centos? I'm looking for items
> to help me learn/gain knowledge.
Yes, the docs for RHEL also apply to CentOS. CentOS is binary
compatible with RHEL.
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> Thank You
> Cody
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> At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:40:11 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
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> > Hello
> >
> > I'm new to linux and am trying to install centos 5.3 on my laptop
> > and it has an ata drive but centos does not see the had or cdrom.
> > Googleing does not give me much to check. The laptop is a hp-g60 249wm,
> > latest bios update. The bios does not have any ability to change drive
> > information. The bios basically allows me to only set time, date and
> > boot item. Any advice or direction is appreciated!
>
> Is the drive IDE (PATA) or SATA? If SATA, you will need a proper SATA
> driver. As a *guess* (which worked for the SATA controller on my
> desktop motherboard), try adding the 'irqpoll' kernel parameter:
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> Boot: linux irqpoll
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> > Thank you
> > Cody
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