At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:40:11 +0000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

Hello

I'm new to linux and am trying to install centos 5.3 on my laptop and it has an ata drive but centos does not see the had or cdrom. Googleing does not give me much to check. The laptop is a hp-g60 249wm, latest bios update. The bios does not have any ability to change drive information. The bios basically allows me to only set time, date and boot item. Any advice or direction is appreciated!

Is the drive IDE (PATA) or SATA? If SATA, you will need a proper SATA driver. As a *guess* (which worked for the SATA controller on my desktop motherboard), try adding the 'irqpoll' kernel parameter:

Boot: linux irqpoll

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