On Thursday 18 December 2003 22:55, Alan Gray wrote:
> Thanks everyone for your help with my attempts to get the SATA drives
> working.
>
> Got the kernel all compiled, all modules built and installed,
> added an entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst, rebooted and the computer half
> booted then hung.
Yes, I run also into that problem.
- Installed to SCSI HD,
- setup and build the new kernel with SATA, installed it to SCSI HD,
- boot that new kernel and bingo, SATA HD's are working.
- I have cretated partition tables and filesystems and the disks works ok
During the next boot the system hangs in Grub.
The reason seems to me that the BIOS find a valid partition on the SATA HD's 
and scrambled the order of the HD's. After changing the order in BIOS I was 
able to boot again.
Yes, I was also confused - because I was sure, that the system was working 
before and I have nothing changed in the Linux Boot config.

Happy X-Mas to all,
Frank