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[Robert Styma]

> I think its also not a problem with the devices - Primary IDE master is
> a harddrive (master) and the other harddrive on this cable is set to
> slave. The secondary IDE cable just has a CD drive (master).
> Fedora is installed on the secondary harddrive.

>Any more ideas?

I have run into similar symptoms in 2 cases.

1.  Some motherboards seem to insist that the primary master be
    set to CS (Cable Select) rather than outright master.  You 
    have to plug it into the correct cable selector too.

2.  I had a bios that got in trouble when I had more than 128 Meg
    on the machine.  The bios correctly reported the 256 meg but then   
    would hang part way through the boot procedure.  A boot parm
    telling Linux it had only 128 meg got around the problem.  A bios
    upgrade fixed it.

Both of these are pretty easy to try if you have the machine apart anyway.