I installed the new kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 and my machine starts to boot and then says: ata1: failed to set xfermode, disabled ata2: failed to set xfermode, disabled Then it complains that it can't find any volume groups, there is one, but I don't think that it can see my SATA disks. It prints out a few more things and panics. I am running Fedora Core 4, planning on going to 5 after it has settled some. Grub kernel line: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 ro root=/dev/V0/L1 acpi=off rhgb quiet Should I try something else on the kernel command line? Thanks! Jerry With 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 kernel some of dmesg looks like: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ stepping 01 PCI: Bypassing VIA 8237 APIC De-Assert Message Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.1, from 255 to 0 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hdb: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-500M 010, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: SONY DVD RW DRU-510A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdb: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(66) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(33) SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 1.20 loaded. sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 1.1 sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 11 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE800 ctl 0xE402 bmdma 0xD800 irq 11 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE000 ctl 0xDC02 bmdma 0xD808 irq 11 ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4003 88:407f ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 490234752 sectors: LBA48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : sata_via ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4003 88:407f ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 490234752 sectors: LBA48 ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : sata_via Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y250M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 sda7 > sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y250M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdb: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 > sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list