[CentOS] Centos 5.1 installation problems -- couldn't find devices

[Yu-Hui Jin]

Hi, there,

I just bought a Dell Inspiron 530 with the following basic configuration:

Inspiron 530 Intel Core2 processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad Core
Technology and 8MB cache

SATA 0: Samsung HD501LJ(500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive(7200RPM))
SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S   (16X DVD+/-RW Drive)

I tried to install Centos 5.1 on it with dual boot (keep Windows XP
partition) and got stuck on some strange issues.  I hope one of you could
shed some light on what I should do next.  Here's the summary of my
installation attempts.

Attempt 1:  I burned both an installation DVD (slow and verified) and
installation CD #1.  I tried them both and both failed due to no driver
found.  More specifically, at the step for "what type of media contains the
packages to be installed?", I chose "Local CDROM", the result screen said
"No driver found" and prompted me to Select driver from a list of drivers.
I randomly chose a few but none worked.

Attempt 2. I tried network installation.  I chose "HTTP" when prompted for
the media. I then specified the
mirror.centos.orgas the
Web Site Name and
/centos/5/os/i386/   as the Red
Hat directory.  It got the installation started successfully. However, at
the step for partitioning the disk, I was prompted to choose the partition
option and I checked the "review and modify partitioning layout".  Also,
there's no drive shown in the "select the drive(s) to use for this
installation" panel.  When i clicked Next,  a "No drives Found" message
popped up, saying "an error has occurred -- no  valid devices were found on
which to create new file systems. please check your hardware for the cause
of this problem."

It seemed both attempts failed due to the installation program couldn't find
either the SATA DVD drive or the SATA hard disk.  However,  it's hard to
believe Centos 5.1 installation couldn't recognize these two SATA devices.

I'm now stuck.  Any suggestion or advice is much appreciated.


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Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.1 installation problems -- couldn't find devices

[Yu-Hui Jin]

Thanks. Joseph,  my box actually has Windows XP pre-installed (instead of
Vista).

So I'll check that option in my BIOS when I get back home, although I don't
recall I've seen one.  I'll also send out an email to this list to ask if
someone else has solved similar problem.

Let me know if there's other mailing list I can ask.


Thanks,

-Hui




On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Joseph L. Casale <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >It seemed both attempts failed due to the installation program couldn't
> find either the SATA DVD drive or the SATA hard disk.  However,  it's hard
> to believe Centos 5.1 installation couldn't recognize >these two SATA
> devices.
> >
> >I'm now stuck.  Any suggestion or advice is much appreciated.
>
> CentOS more than likely will recognize the devices once they are on a
> controller it recognizes :)
> That model appears to use a recent Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) and is
> only sold with Vista. You could look at the bios and see if the Vendor
> enabled an option to adjust how the controller appears to the OS, look for a
> setting that says something like AHCI/Native/Legacy etc...
>
> I'm sure someone here has used such a recent system and has a solution. I
> recall someone here or on another list suggesting some kernel parameters
> that might need to be passed.
>
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[CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

[Yu-Hui Jin]

Hi, there,

I tried to install Centos 5.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530 box I just bought, but
failed due to invalid drive. The installation did not recognize either the
DVD nor the hard disk.  Joseph from the community said it is likely that
Centos can't recognize the controller -- Intel SATA controller (cmiiw).

Did anyone solve this problem before?  How did you do it?

Here's the related configuration for my box:
Inspiron 530 Intel Core2 processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad Core
Technology and 8MB cache
SATA 0: Samsung HD501LJ(500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive(7200RPM))
SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S   (16X DVD+/-RW Drive)


Many thanks!


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Re: [CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

[Yu-Hui Jin]

Hi, Jason,

Thanks and I tried the first method to start with the parameter, but it was
extremely slow loading each screen. one time I got to the testing media page
and i chose Test. and it seemed stuck there for ever so I forced shutdown my
box.

I also tried to download and install the AHCI driver following this article:

http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30865

But the installation failed; it said The computer does not meet the minimum
requirements for installing this software.

It seemed that no trick has worked yet... any new suggestion or advice?


Thanks,

-Hui



On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> boot with
>
> linux all-generic-ide
>
> or try to change your bios sata emulation to ahci
>
> Yu-Hui Jin wrote:
> > Hi, there,
> >
> > I tried to install Centos 5.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530 box I just bought,
> > but failed due to invalid drive. The installation did not recognize
> > either the DVD nor the hard disk.  Joseph from the community said it is
> > likely that Centos can't recognize the controller -- Intel SATA
> > controller (cmiiw).
> >
> > Did anyone solve this problem before?  How did you do it?
> >
> > Here's the related configuration for my box:
> > Inspiron 530 Intel Core2 processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad Core
> > Technology and 8MB cache
> > SATA 0: Samsung HD501LJ(500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive(7200RPM))
> > SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S   (16X DVD+/-RW Drive)
> >
> >
> > Many thanks!
> >
> >
> > regards,
> > -Hui
> >
> >
> > 
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Re: [CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

[Yu-Hui Jin]

Anyone can help?

Many thanks!

-Hui

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Yu-Hui Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi, Jason,
>
> Thanks and I tried the first method to start with the parameter, but it
> was extremely slow loading each screen. one time I got to the testing media
> page and i chose Test. and it seemed stuck there for ever so I forced
> shutdown my box.
>
> I also tried to download and install the AHCI driver following this
> article:
> http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30865
>
> But the installation failed; it said The computer does not meet the
> minimum requirements for installing this software.
>
> It seemed that no trick has worked yet... any new suggestion or advice?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Hui
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > boot with
> >
> > linux all-generic-ide
> >
> > or try to change your bios sata emulation to ahci
> >
> > Yu-Hui Jin wrote:
> > > Hi, there,
> > >
> > > I tried to install Centos 5.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530 box I just
> > bought,
> > > but failed due to invalid drive. The installation did not recognize
> > > either the DVD nor the hard disk.  Joseph from the community said it
> > is
> > > likely that Centos can't recognize the controller -- Intel SATA
> > > controller (cmiiw).
> > >
> > > Did anyone solve this problem before?  How did you do it?
> > >
> > > Here's the related configuration for my box:
> > > Inspiron 530 Intel Core2 processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad Core
> > > Technology and 8MB cache
> > > SATA 0: Samsung HD501LJ(500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive(7200RPM))
> > > SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S   (16X DVD+/-RW Drive)
> > >
> > >
> > > Many thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > -Hui
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
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Re: [CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

[Yu-Hui Jin]

I was told to try two methods:
1)  linxu all-generic-ide
2)  install ahci  and config to use it in BIOS.

#1 is too slow;  #2,  I checked my BIOS, there's no ahci option.   That's
why i'm following the article which tells how to install it for XP and get
it into BIOS.


thanks,
-Hui


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> on 3-17-2008 11:21 PM Yu-Hui Jin spake the following:
> > Hi, Jason,
> >
> > Thanks and I tried the first method to start with the parameter, but it
> > was extremely slow loading each screen. one time I got to the testing
> > media page and i chose Test. and it seemed stuck there for ever so I
> > forced shutdown my box.
> >
> > I also tried to download and install the AHCI driver following this
> > article:
> > http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30865
> >
> > But the installation failed; it said The computer does not meet the
> > minimum requirements for installing this software.
> >
> > It seemed that no trick has worked yet... any new suggestion or advice?
> >
> That article is for Windows XP. How does it relate to CentOS?
> Did you actually go into your bios and see if you could change the sata
> emulation to legacy or ahci?
>
>
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Re: [CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos5.1 installation?

[Yu-Hui Jin]

> Here ya go
> 5 minutes
>
>
> http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linux&message.id=12701&query.id=104245#M12701
>
>
Thanks!   I tried network installation (using HTTP though), but the harddisk
can't be recognized during the partitioning step.  It seems to me this NFS
network described in this article would have the same problem.

am I wrong in thinking this way? (i don't have a second linux to do the NFS
install so I'm suspicious about whether i should really give this a try.)

It seems installing AHCI is the only way to go to me


-Hui





>
> -Hui
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Yu-Hui Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi, Jason,
> >
> > Thanks and I tried the first method to start with the parameter, but it
> > was extremely slow loading each screen. one time I got to the testing media
> > page and i chose Test. and it seemed stuck there for ever so I forced
> > shutdown my box.
> >
> > I also tried to download and install the AHCI driver following this
> > article:
> > http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30865
> >
> > But the installation failed; it said The computer does not meet the
> > minimum requirements for installing this software.
> >
> > It seemed that no trick has worked yet... any new suggestion or advice?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Hui
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > boot with
> > >
> > > linux all-generic-ide
> > >
> > > or try to change your bios sata emulation to ahci
> > >
> > > Yu-Hui Jin wrote:
> > > > Hi, there,
> > > >
> > > > I tried to install Centos 5.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530 box I just
> > > bought,
> > > > but failed due to invalid drive. The installation did not recognize
> > > > either the DVD nor the hard disk.  Joseph from the community said it
> > > is
> > > > likely that Centos can't recognize the controller -- Intel SATA
> > > > controller (cmiiw).
> > > >
> > > > Did anyone solve this problem before?  How did you do it?
> > > >
> > > > Here's the related configuration for my box:
> > > > Inspiron 530 Intel Core2 processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad
> > > Core
> > > > Technology and 8MB cache
> > > > SATA 0: Samsung HD501LJ(500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive(7200RPM))
> > > > SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S   (16X DVD+/-RW Drive)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > > -Hui
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > 
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Re: [CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos5.1 installation?

[Yu-Hui Jin]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:35 PM, bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> hi...
>
> you might want to look at some of the past threads/sites for centos and
> optiplex 300/320 systems from dell...
>

Thank you! I will download the threads and grep for this info.


-Hui






>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf
> Of Yu-Hui Jin
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:03 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by
> Centos5.1 installation?
>
>
> Anyone can help?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> -Hui
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Yu-Hui Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi, Jason,
>
> Thanks and I tried the first method to start with the parameter, but it
> was
> extremely slow loading each screen. one time I got to the testing media
> page
> and i chose Test. and it seemed stuck there for ever so I forced shutdown
> my
> box.
>
> I also tried to download and install the AHCI driver following this
> article:
> http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30865
>
> But the installation failed; it said The computer does not meet the
> minimum
> requirements for installing this software.
>
> It seemed that no trick has worked yet... any new suggestion or advice?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Hui
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> boot with
>
> linux all-generic-ide
>
> or try to change your bios sata emulation to ahci
>
>
> Yu-Hui Jin wrote:
> > Hi, there,
> >
> > I tried to install Centos 5.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530 box I just bought,
> > but failed due to invalid drive. The installation did not recognize
> > either the DVD nor the hard disk.  Joseph from the community said it is
> > likely that Centos can't recognize the controller -- Intel SATA
> > controller (cmiiw).
> >
> > Did anyone solve this problem before?  How did you do it?
> >
> > Here's the related configuration for my box:
> > Inspiron 530 Intel Core2 processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz 1066FSB) w/Quad Core
> > Technology and 8MB cache
> > SATA 0: Samsung HD501LJ(500GB Serial ATA II Hard Drive(7200RPM))
> > SATA 1: PDBS DVD +/- RW DH-16W1S   (16X DVD+/-RW Drive)
> >
> >
> > Many thanks!
> >
> >
> > regards,
> > -Hui
> >
> >
>
> > 
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Re: [CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

[Yu-Hui Jin]

Hi, guys,

I finally found I only need to choose the "RAID" option for SATA mode (the
other one is "IDE").  I didn't know by choosing it, Centos is able to load
the ahci driver.  That solves the problem.  It took ton of time for me to
figuring out the solution is such easy.  I should've tried this earlier.

Thank you all for helping on this.  Centos seems to have a great community.


regards,

-Hui


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:24 AM, bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> bourbon can be good... xmas cooking!!
> although.. rum cakes aren't bad either...
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Scott Silva
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:52 AM
> To: centos@centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by
> Centos 5.1 installation?
>
>
> on 3-19-2008 8:34 AM bruce spake the following:
> > hey scott...
> >
> > are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting
> the installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order
> to
> install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers?
> >
> > might it be possible that the article/advice the poster was following
> was with
> regards to obtaining drivers for the sata controller/drive to be used
> under
> linux??
> >
> Anything is possible, but I actually did read the article, so that doesn't
> apply here. It was to get an AHCI driver for XP on a certain asus MB for
> speed
> reasons.
> I try to not talk out of my behind unless I happen to get into the bourbon
> first, but that is also not the case here.
> And needing to download a windows driver for some kind of emulation like
> ndiswrapper doesn't mean you need to install it in windows, or even have a
> copy of windows.
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