Fedora Core 2 Upgraded Kernel Won't Boot [SOLVED]

[David Bullock]

I self-solved the kernel ugprade issue I wrote about to the list earlier.

Problem:

ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe Motherboard
BIOS Rev 1011
nForce 2 Chipset
Silicon Image SATA RAID on motherboard

Kernel upgrades would not work.  Only the original kernel installed 
during the Fedora installation would boot.

It seems that kernels after 2.6.5 enumerated the SATA and ATA devices in 
a different order, so that system couldn't find the partitions.anymore.

Apparently in 2.6.5 the system enumerated the ATA devices first, 
followed by the SATA devices.  It appears that in later kernels this is 
reversed.

On my motherboard there were no BIOS options to control the SATA 
chipset, and I couldn't access the SATA configuration utility without 
drives attached.  I ended up jumpering the motherboard to disable the 
chipset (shorting pins 2-3 on my mobo).

This resulted in a clean (and much faster) boot of 2.6.8-1.

- Dave