RHEL on SATA HDD

During installation of Linux (RHEL) on a SATA HDD, it can give PCI probing error and/or disk error.

Two changes must be done before loading the RHEL on a SATA disk.

(1) In BIOS:

In advance option change SATA as IDE

(2) Insert CD-1 and type the following line on boot: prompt-

boot: linux pci=nommconf
or
boot: linux all-generic-ide noapic nolapic
or
boot: linux all-generic-ide
or
boot: linux nommconf all-generic-ide
or
boot: apm=off acpi=off

Now you can load RHEL-5 on your SATA HDD.