[I originally sent this using the wrong email address - apologies if it appears twice] Hello Everyone, Has anyone tried installing CentOS 4 x86_64 on a machine with an Adaptec 2230SLP card? I've just tried it, and Anaconda could not detect the card. I've manually loaded the aacraid driver, which then starts the install process. But, when the install gets to disk partitioning, the installer reports that no drives were detected, and aborts. I was quite confident that the 2230SLP would be supported in CentOS 4, especially since I've seen the card mentioned being used in RHEL 3 boxes. I'm about to give the drivers from the Adaptec site a try. If there's another solution I'm missing, I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Systems Aligned Inc. www.systemsaligned.com
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 12:10 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:> I've just tried it, and Anaconda could not detect the > card.BTW, a RAID 1 array has been configured, and the card reports it as OPTIMAL. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Systems Aligned Inc. www.systemsaligned.com
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 12:10 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:> Has anyone tried installing CentOS 4 x86_64 on a machine with an Adaptec > 2230SLP card? I've just tried it, and Anaconda could not detect the > card.Replying to myself again... I traced the problem to the Tyan motherboard: its BIOS allows one to pick the type of OS being installed, which preps the board accordingly. It was set to "other" by the vendor. I changed it to "linux", and the 2230SLP was detected. Hope that helps someone in the future... Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Systems Aligned Inc. www.systemsaligned.com