I'm trying to install either 32-bit or 64 bit centos 4.3 and I keep getting an error: "No valid devices were found on which to install filesystems". In checking BIOS and RAID, everything seems fine, but I just found some research about I20. An alternative would be the i2o_blocks module. How can I install CentOS 4.3 x86_64 using i2o_blocks? How do I instruct the boot prompt to find this driver and get me past the above error? Even in 32-bit I still get this error as well. -karl
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 at 8:56am, Karl R. Balsmeier wrote> I'm trying to install either 32-bit or 64 bit centos 4.3 and I keep > getting an error: > > "No valid devices were found on which to install filesystems". > > In checking BIOS and RAID, everything seems fine, but I just found some > research about I20. > > An alternative would be the i2o_blocks module. > > How can I install CentOS 4.3 x86_64 using i2o_blocks? How do I instruct > the boot prompt to find this driver and get me past the above error? > > Even in 32-bit I still get this error as well.A bit more info about your hardware would be rather handy here... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:> I'm trying to install either 32-bit or 64 bit centos 4.3 and I keep > getting an error: > > "No valid devices were found on which to install filesystems". >it cant find your hard drives, what controller do you have ? its possible that you either need a driver disc or the controller is not supported at all. lspci -v; lspci -n, after a 'linux rescue' boot, would help in locating the issue. - K -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:> I'm trying to install either 32-bit or 64 bit centos 4.3 and I keep > getting an error: > > "No valid devices were found on which to install filesystems".Autodection of some i2o controllers (for example Adaptec's 2010s and 2015s) doesn't work. Just click that you want to manually select driver(s) to load.