[CentOS] CentOS 6 Installation on Thinkpad X220

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