SATA errors linger in test2

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:07:36AM +0000, Rio Baan wrote:
> I have an ASUS P4G8X-Deluxe using the Silicon image on-board SATA RAID.
> On install, the two raid drives are detected as hde and hdg (why no hdf?!?) 

[hdf would be the slave if that port was used pata not sata]

> The same SATA boot problems are still happening... once again, the grey PC 
> boot screen comes up and dies when it gets to "Setting Hostname". So that's 
> where my testing on that machine ended.

This is after the install finished ok ? If so try things like

acpi=off apm=off pci=usepirqmask pnpbios=no

and see if anything helps

> Also, any idea why FC2 is giving me two kernels? I don't have a twin CPU 
> machine (I recently put a a 533Mhz P4 3.06Ghz into my box) so now I can't 
> see why I am getting an SMP kernel as an added bonus.

With hyperthreading - if so the SMP kernel choice is there to use that.

> Also, I tried installing test2 on a really old Pentium I machine in text 
> mode. When it came time to swap CDs, the computer decided to reset itself 
> instead. When I retried the install with no extra packages (and no CD 
> change) install was OK on that machine.

How much ram ?