Hi, I'm trying to install Slink from CD on my new computer. Booting from the CD-ROM starts out fine, until it gets to the md driver (which is for RAID, I believe?), at which point, the computer freezes. When the md driver line first appears on the screen, I can hear the hard disk spinning up and then it comes to a halt.
The computer is an AMD Athlon 550 MHz with a 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/66 hard drive; the manual for the motherboard states that its AMD 756 Viper chipset has an IDE controller that supports Ultra ATA/66. I've been reading the recent postings regarding Ultra ATA/66 drives and, given the fact that the md driver seems to be the sticking point, I'm guessing that the hard drive is the crux of the problem. Beyond that, I'm clueless. I went into the BIOS and explicitly disabled UDMA on the device, and the computer still fails to boot. I just read in the Ultra-DMA Mini-Howto that "the old stock kernels (2.0.x) do not currently support UDMA very well," a statement that I assume applies to Slink. Is this my problem? If so, is there anything I can do to circumvent it? I want to upgrade to Potato anyway. Short of ordering a Potato CD from linux-cd.com, is there anyway I can get this to work? Thanks in advance, Michael
