Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Edward Diener eddielee@tropicsoft.com wrote:
But obviously CentOS did not. Why ?
Installers are not perfect, and they never will be. That includes Windows especially.
Again, as explained in my OP, I have no RAID array but just the HPT 374 onboard RAID controller handling my hard
drives.
Yep. FRAID cards are just "regular ATA" bus arbitrators. So as long as you don't setup the RAID organization, the disks should not have any special striping/blocking.
The HPT36x/37x are no exception, they are standard ATA channels, period.
This is because my normal IDE contrller has other non-harddisk devices attached to it.
Yep, ATAPI devices like CD/DVD.
-- Bryan
P.S. BTW, I've just started deploying some Intel i8xx/9xx systems with ICH5+ controllers and I am extremely _disappointed_ with the BIOS disk / Linux device mapping that causes both installer and rescue mode recovery issues. It was clearly not as "well thought out" by Intel compared to most of the nVidia MCP-04 ATA/SATA. Is it a newer Intel i8xx/9xx chipset?
Just though I mentioned that I got CentOS installed properly by not using a boot partitition and just installing everything into a root partition. Why this bug insists on my machine, and whether it exists for others for some reason is something I do not know. My guess is that grub booting on a boot partition and executing programs on a root partition needs to know the disk geometry of the root partition and is not doing that properly on my machine for some reason or another.