Catastrophe!
Aug 1 Cooker will not install from hd.img when the motherboard includes the Promise PDC2072 chip which provides ATA100, ATA133, and RAID operation.
This is a well reported legacy problem from MDK 9.1 and should have been corrected months ago!
Correction requires the correct PDC2072 kernel option to be set, and is very simple, but can only be done by the developer of the hd.img image..
How on earth could a responsible development organisation, MandrakeSoft, ever have managed to forget this very basic capability.
I really am incredulous!
The symptom: Immediately at an Cooker hd.img floppy boot one is greeted by "No DISK drive found", with no escape.
Please notify me by email, and this list, when a Cooker that supports main board PDC2072 is available. Until then _NO_ 9.2 beta testing is possible here.
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