On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:17 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
Drew wrote on 07/21/2011 11:09 AM:
From the sounds of it it's fake raid. M$ doesn't leave any signatures
on their raid system that linux will detect. dm/md raid can see fakeraid signatures in newer versions so the installer may be picking up on that.
So, erasing the RAID signatures with "dd" in addition to changing the BIOS setting, is indicated.
Phil
Used a CentOS 6 Live DVD to boot. Then discovered that under Applications>System>Disk Utilities one can manage disks to include busting up old raid devices and partitions.
Whatever raid metadata was written by WinXP-64 was destroyed and I was able to do a proper install of CentOS 6.
Thanks go to the upstream developers for enhancing the disk utilities.
DaveM