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On some Intel® Desktop Boards, RHEL* 5 installation will not detect IDE optical drive. The issue occurs when the system has Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives and a PATA (IDE) optical drive.
To work around this problem, use a SATA or external USB optical drive.
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- Enable AHCI mode in BIOS (RAID mode disabled)
- Enter the BIOS Setup program by pressing the <F2> key after the Power-On-Self-Test (POST) memory test begins.
- Select the Advanced menu, then the Drive Configuration menu.
- Disable Intel® RAID Technology
- Enable SATA AHCI mode
- Save changes and exit the BIOS configuration
- Enter additional boot parameter (linux all-generic-ide) to boot during the initial installation of RHEL 5:
boot: linux all-generic-ide
- Edit GRUB boot loader to append the above parameter for operating system to recognize IDE optical drive
Intel provides basic information on installing a few Linux* distributions, such as Redhat*, SuSE* & Ubuntu* on Intel Desktop Boards. Information on the web is based on the results of operating system installation with default settings and simple workarounds for installation issues. No attempt has been made to test every available subsystem or software application.
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Operating System:
| Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 5.0 |
This applies to:
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