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Hello Again: If anyone responded to my first post (repeated below) could you please forward your response directly to me at noleks at lsil.com? Turns out I wasn't yet authorized to get your responses. I'm all set now though. Thanks, Nick Oleksinski Hi All: I just bought a brand spanking new Gateway Performance 600 with the following features: -Pentium III 600 MHz -nVidia TNT2 BIOS -nVidia 16 MB RIVA TNT2 M64 Graphics Accelerator -Promise ATA Ultra 66 disk controller -27.3 GB Hard Drive -8x/32x DVD ROM drive -4x/4x/24x Philips Recordable/ReWriteable CD/ROM -128 MB SDRAM -SoundBlaster Live! Value w/ digital audio output I bought RedHat Linux 6.1 a week before the computer arrived, only to find that it couldn't be loaded due to the unsupported Promise Ultra-66 ATA controller. I then downloaded the 2.2.13 kernel and kernel patch that supports this drive. After making a boot disk from my old machine (make zdisk), I find that it hangs after the following message: ide2 at 0x10a8-0x10af, 0x109e on irq 5 Has anyone else seen this? Is there any way I can extract more info from the boot by compiling the kernel in some sort of debug mode or something? My computer freezes at exactly the same spot when I try to boot using the RHL 6.0 beta boot image provided by Promise. Any help would be appreciated and it would definitely be worth a few bucks to the cause if you can get me up and running. Please help me avoid Windows 98!! Thanks -Nick Oleksinski - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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