Sounds like a typical misconfigured kernel to me. Make sure you have the right ide/sata drivers and filesystem built into the kernel (not as modules).

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/Fredrik Rinnestam

------------------------------ I got a panic too the first time and had to reconfigure. In my case it was because I didn't have the driver for my ide controller chipset (ata_piix) enabled. You need to have that built-in as well as the ide driver itself and the root partition filesystem.

Hazel Russman -- Hazel Russman <hazel_russman@yahoo.co.uk>