On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 11:51 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > I have never seen this before with any kernel updates. Currently all > versions 2.6.16 start fine, and the 2.6.17 before 2.7.2174 are OK. > > I am running FC5 on a Dell Latitude D820 that has SATA hard disk that > FC5 treats as scsi, and it also has a CDRom which plugs into a modular > bay. As best I can describe it, this is a USB device, but linux will > treat it either as ide or scsi, depending on whether the parameter > hdc=noprobe is in the kernel start line. > Paul, I am currently running FC5 on a Dell D820 with the 2.6.17-1.2174 kernel. My boot line from grub: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp ro root=/dev/bikinibottom/root vga=0x31a quiet hdc=noprobe I'm using the nvidia drivers from atrpms. Works in my office. [bpm]$ uname -a Linux dufus 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 8 16:00:39 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux But I think the real problem is that you are in Kansas. Now if you were in St. Louis, well it just might work :-) -- Brian Millett - [ Rabbi Koslov, "TKO"] "You can not run away from your own heart, Susan, not even in space."