[CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Mon May 17 06:15:12 UTC 2010


David Suhendrik wrote:
> Thanks for the help, a solution to this problem is to update the bios, 
> and after using the newest version of bios I can use AHCI mode on the 
> sata controller, and indeed this is the problem.
>
> But I had to install windows server to update the bios, then installed 
> again using Linux.
>   

you can put most windows-only flash updaters and such on a USB stick or 
CD with Hirens Boot or similar, and run them from there.



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