On Tuesday 18 March 2008 06:21:43 Yu-Hui Jin wrote:
Hi, Jason,
Thanks and I tried the first method to start with the parameter, but it was extremely slow loading each screen. one time I got to the testing media page and i chose Test. and it seemed stuck there for ever so I forced shutdown my box.
That's because you are using the drive in IDE mode with a general work with "most controllers driver". Might be worth giving it time to finish the installation and let CentOS go online and find the correct driver.
I also tried to download and install the AHCI driver following this article:
Not on line at the moment so can't follow the link at the moment
But the installation failed; it said The computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing this software.
Sounds like the installation is not finding the correct controller chip, is it the correct driver?
It seemed that no trick has worked yet... any new suggestion or advice?
Thanks,
-Hui
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jason jason@jasonandjessi.com wrote:
boot with
linux all-generic-ide
or try to change your bios sata emulation to ahci
Yu-Hui Jin wrote:
Hi, there,
I tried to install Centos 5.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530 box I just bought, but failed due to invalid drive. The installation did not recognize either the DVD nor the hard disk. Joseph from the community said it is likely that Centos can't recognize the controller -- Intel SATA controller (cmiiw).
Did anyone solve this problem before? How did you do it?
Here's the related configuration for my box: 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)
Many thanks!
regards, -Hui
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Was there an operating system (M$?) on the machine before you tried to upgrade the O/S to CentOS and if so did the controller have access to both drives? What is the controller that the drives are connected to? Regards John