[CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow

Fri May 7 14:40:39 UTC 2010
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rajagopal Swaminathan
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 2:42
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Joseph L. Casale 
> <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
> >>Why is my SATA drive showing up under /dev/hdb?
> >
> 
> 
> I have seen this problem solved by just adding ide0-noprobe 
> ideprobe=0 to the kernel line in the menu.lst of grub at 
> least in in some model of HP desktops. adn a reboot of course.

>From dmesg:
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ide0-noprobe ideprobe=0
ide_setup: ide0-noprobe -- BAD OPTION
ide_setup: ideprobe=0 -- BAD OPTION



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