Thanks for the reply! Looking at the specs the hd is sata. Also the documents for rhel are they the same for centos? I'm looking for items to help me learn/gain knowledge. Thank You Cody ------Original Message------ From: Robert Heller Sender: centos-bounces at centos.org To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS at centos.org ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Laptop hd incorrect Sent: Aug 12, 2009 1:19 PM At Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:40:11 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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 > > Thank you > Cody > Sent on the Now Network™ from my Sprint® BlackBerryMIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ Sent on the Now Network™ from my Sprint® BlackBerry