Thanks. Joseph, my box actually has Windows XP pre-installed (instead of Vista). So I'll check that option in my BIOS when I get back home, although I don't recall I've seen one. I'll also send out an email to this list to ask if someone else has solved similar problem. Let me know if there's other mailing list I can ask. Thanks, -Hui On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Joseph L. Casale < jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote: > >It seemed both attempts failed due to the installation program couldn't > find either the SATA DVD drive or the SATA hard disk. However, it's hard > to believe Centos 5.1 installation couldn't recognize >these two SATA > devices. > > > >I'm now stuck. Any suggestion or advice is much appreciated. > > CentOS more than likely will recognize the devices once they are on a > controller it recognizes :) > That model appears to use a recent Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) and is > only sold with Vista. You could look at the bios and see if the Vendor > enabled an option to adjust how the controller appears to the OS, look for a > setting that says something like AHCI/Native/Legacy etc... > > I'm sure someone here has used such a recent system and has a solution. I > recall someone here or on another list suggesting some kernel parameters > that might need to be passed. > > jlc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Regards, -Hui -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080317/016197e3/attachment-0004.html>