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I am trying to install CentOS 5.2 on a machine with an MSI P45 NEO Motherboard. I have 5 1.5TB hard drives installed. The bios detects them at bootup, but the CentOS installation does not. Am I out of luck? Do I need to go get a new motherboard with a supported SATA controller or is there a way to load a linux driver (I can't find one yet).
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it won't affect anything if you put it in AHCI/RAID mode. In fact, in most BIOSes there is a separate RAID config section in the BIOS, if you don't mess with that then it won't affect anything.
As H_TeXMeX_H suggested, I think setting the SATA ports to AHCI mode in BIOS should work.
I have a board with the same chipset (ICH10), an Asus Rampage Formula, but running Ubuntu 8.10 on it, not CentOS. XP was fine, but had some issues in Ubuntu until I set all SATA ports to AHCI. And that's with a newer kernel (2.6.27.x vs. 2.6.18.x in CentOS 5.2).
The install goes fine, and the drives format. At the end of the install (right before reboot) it says installing hwbrowser and then sits there. It sat for over 24 hours and never finished. Rebooting it does not bring it back. Any ideas?
I am attempting to install a machine with (5) 1.5TB HDD's. They are config'd as (1) operating system (2-5) software RAID5 /dev/mdo
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