>> >> I have been trying to install CentOS 5.4 on a Intel SR1530SHS, Intel S3200SH >> mainboard.. It has a 3 x 1TB sata hotswap drives with LSI software raid >> onboard. >> >> I had configured the LSI to have Sata0 and Sata1 with raid 1 and the third >> drive as a hotspare drive. >> >> Format the harddisk and installation was a breeze. The server rebooted into >> a blank screen and the cursor just keep blinking. >> <snip> > I've had this problem on an Intel board when I had hard drives on the > motherboards SATA ports and some on the motherboards silicon image > SATA ports. The bios seemed to swap the order the drives were present > to grub so it couldn't boot. I would either get a blinking cursor or > GRUB. I ended up putting all the drives on a LSI PCI Express card and > everything just worked. However in your situation it sounds like you > only have drives on the LSI controller. > > I would try booting into resuce mode with the CentOS installation CD. > You can do this by typing linux rescue. Have it search and mount the > CentOS installation. Look at /boot/grub/device.map and make sure hd0 > references the correct /dev/sd device. Also chroot /mnt/sysimage and > try grub-install /dev/sd Ryan, I followed your instruction, but it is still not working. Any other suggestion? Thanks wL