On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Janne TH. Nyman wrote: > Hi all, > > All resolved now. Thanks to Paul for pointing out the basics :) > > This had nothing to do with the e1000e as I thought earlier. It has to > do with the AHCI mode set for the SATA interface. > > These where the steps I took to resolve it: > > 1. Start Laptop > 2. When first boot screen appears, press F1 to get into the BIOS setup > 3. Go to Config > Serial ATA and change AHCI to Compatibility > 4. Press F10 to save and reboot > > Now it boots and installs. Since CentOS has an older kernel than RHEL > 6.1 I am not able to get screen resolution etc to work so I will run > RHEL on this one as Keyboard keys, Web cam, Sound, Ericsson WLAN, all > just works :) Making sure it was in AHCI mode was the first suggestion you got on the list... ;) jh