You need the raid drivers from Dell; perc isn't recognized out of the box with Centos.
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 22:32 -0500, Steve Jenkins wrote: > I've been trying for a few days now to install CentOS 5.4 on a PowerEdge > 1850. During the boot, I can press CTRL+M to configure the RAID > controller and 2 drives into a RAID 1 array which initializes and > appears just fine. > > However, trying to install CentOS (Net install, DVD install, 64-bit, > 32-bit, text install, gui install, etc.) always fails right after the > "Welcome to CentOS" part when it reports that it can't find /dev/sda to > partition pre-install. > > Has anyone else seen this? I've updated all the firmwares possible, and > am still seeing this issue. I've decided that the RAID controller is > probably wonky, but before I work on swapping that out, anyone else have > any ideas I may have missed? > > Thanks, > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. -- Steven Wright
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