On 5/24/2010 4:10 AM, CList wrote: >>> 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? > > Have you considered using software raid instead? I would take a reinstall, but IMO an easier/better solution over built-in and low-end HW raid controllers. Dan