Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Edward Diener <eddielee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>But obviously CentOS did not. Why ?
>
>
> Installers are not perfect, and they never will be.
> That includes Windows especially.
>
>
>>Again, as explained in my OP, I have no RAID array but just
>>the HPT 374 onboard RAID controller handling my hard
>
> drives.
>
> Yep. FRAID cards are just "regular ATA" bus arbitrators.
> So as long as you don't setup the RAID organization, the
> disks should not have any special striping/blocking.
>
> The HPT36x/37x are no exception, they are standard ATA
> channels, period.
>
>
>>This is because my normal IDE contrller
>>has other non-harddisk devices attached to it.
>
>
> Yep, ATAPI devices like CD/DVD.
>
> -- Bryan
>
> P.S. BTW, I've just started deploying some Intel i8xx/9xx
> systems with ICH5+ controllers and I am extremely
> _disappointed_ with the BIOS disk / Linux device mapping that
> causes both installer and rescue mode recovery issues. It
> was clearly not as "well thought out" by Intel compared to
> most of the nVidia MCP-04 ATA/SATA. Is it a newer Intel
> i8xx/9xx chipset?
Just though I mentioned that I got CentOS installed properly by not using a boot
partitition and just installing everything into a root partition. Why this bug
insists on my machine, and whether it exists for others for some reason is
something I do not know. My guess is that grub booting on a boot partition and
executing programs on a root partition needs to know the disk geometry of the
root partition and is not doing that properly on my machine for some reason or
another.
