2011/3/23 John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>: > On 03/23/11 10:40 AM, admin lewis wrote: >> Hi, >> this is the first time I install linux on a dell server. Simply I >> booted from a centos 5.5 x64 dvd but I cant see the disks.. is there >> something I miss ? > > does that system have some form of PERC raid controller? you need to go > into the PERC Bios (or use Dell's utility disk and the raid > configuratator) and define whatever level of hardware raid you want, > creating logical volumes that your OS will see as 'disks'. > > Thanks very much to all, now I have understood.. anyway it's a perc s300.. I see I can make a virtual disk read-only... very interesting.. well .. to have a /boot partition read-only is a non-sense... thanks to all again... someone has told "google is your friend" .. ..but I say "I prefer human friend".. :-) -- Admin Lewis