[CentOS] Centos5 installer hangs up with promise sata controller on board

[Phil Schaffner]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 13:33 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> I found out (in the Fedore archives ;-) that the boot option "nodmraid"  (for the install kernel) 
> would be helpful. I checked it, and this really helps: the installation is totally performed - no 
> hangup, and afterwards the system runs with centOS 5.

Can't get to my problematic system to test at the moment, but do recall
seeing that reference and don't think it worked for me.  I do know that
my system will not boot CentOS 5 with any of the CentOS kernels, but
will run on recent Fedora or CentOS 4 kernels, as documented in

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1879

That references upstream

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186272

 There have been boot problems with different Promise controllers with
somewhat different symptoms.  Mine is

00:11.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20575 (SATAII150 TX2plus) (rev 02)

Not a RAID controller.   What exact hardware are you finding the
nodmraid work-around helps on?

Phil