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
