INTEL SE 7505 VB2 won't boot

[Stephen Moore]

I have a dual xeon computer with a intel 7505 motherboard that wont boot 
with fedora test 2. I was running RH9 with a custom kernel (to speed up 
sata) and am still running on this kernel 2.4.22 + fedora test 2.

I boot from a pata drive
/home is a raid 5 array

Test 2 fails after the start of the md startup ( 4 X SATA disks) and by 
itself gives a kernel opps in raid5sync

I tried pci=noapic and noapic oarameters on bootup.

noapic seemed to make no difference
pci=noapic progressed to

enabling local filesystem quotas    [OK]


then hung

Where do I go to from here?