Hi,

I've been having problems installing CentOS 5 on the DL320 G2 server which uses one of those fake raid chips. I'm fairly sure it's a an LSI logic chip supporting 133 ATA x 2, with raid 0, 1 and 1+0 support and uses the megaide driver. Here are the specs for the system (though they don't specify the chip in question) - http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11512_div/11512_div.html

When booting with old firmware/bios i get to the point anaconda does the drive detection and it cannot find any drives. I thought, ok old firmware i'll try updating to the firmware shipped on the 2007 release of HP firmware 7.70 CDROM (FW770.2007_0131.52.iso). Now i boot C5 up from CD and all i see is -

loading vmlinuz.... loading initrd.img.... Ready!..

You cannot disabled the LSI controller in the BIOS, it appears to be the only ide controller available. I have tried a few kernel parameters such as enabling disabling apic etc but nothing got me past this point.

Any ideas?

Thanks Nick

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