Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Installation on Thinkpad X220

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Janne TH. Nyman wrote:

Hi all,

All resolved now. Thanks to Paul for pointing out the basics :)

This had nothing to do with the e1000e as I thought earlier. It has to do with the AHCI mode set for the SATA interface.

These where the steps I took to resolve it:

1. Start Laptop
2. When first boot screen appears, press F1 to get into the BIOS setup
3. Go to Config > Serial ATA and change AHCI to Compatibility
4. Press F10 to save and reboot

Now it boots and installs. Since CentOS has an older kernel than RHEL 6.1 I am not able to get screen resolution etc to work so I will run RHEL on this one as Keyboard keys, Web cam, Sound, Ericsson WLAN, all just works :)

Making sure it was in AHCI mode was the first suggestion you got on the list... ;)

jh