Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Edward Diener <eddielee at 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.