On 2008-07-17, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>
> Looking at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_P5Q-E it may be worth trying it
> with the hd in raid mode.
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
>

Cheers,

I sorted it by following a forum suggestion to put the ICH10R SATAs in
AHCI mode (rather than IDE mode). Then Mandriva installed happily.
However my W2003 install didnt like that. But I scrubbed it and shoved
it in vmware server where it belongs :)

Lordy