Hello Dave, Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 10:09:23 AM, you wrote: DH> Further to my previous post (GRUB, SATA etc) my D875PBZ-based box is DH> hanging on boot. I have: DH> 1 PATA drive (pri master), 1 DVD (sec master) and 2 SATA drives. DH> I am booting off the first SATA drive (SATA0). It gets to runlevel 5 and DH> starts various things (lots of green done messages) but then stops. The DH> last two lines on screen are: DH> Starting hardware scan on bootStarting CRON daemon done DH> Starting Name Service Cache Daemon done DH> I tried booting with the failsafe args(no dma, apm, acpi, smp, apic etc) DH> but that hung earlier in the boot. The last line is: DH> hde: attached ide-disk driver. DH> I don't see anything wrong in the log before that. DH> Does anybody have any suggestions what may be wrong or where to look for DH> more diagnostics? I didn't want to mention this in my previous post, but now that you seem to be able to boot to a point... The board I installed Suse 9.0 on had both the Intel ICH5 SATA controller and a Silicon Image Sil3112a SATA controller. I managed to get Suse installed to the drives connected to the SI interface w/o too much trouble. However, when I tried to move the boot disk from the SI controller to the ICH5 controller (and make the necessary changes in BIOS), I experienced the exact same problems that you're describing, using the latest Suse 2.4 kernel. I attributed this problem to a driver issue with the controller in the kernel and left the drives on the SI SATA ports. I've been reading related posts regarding SATA interfaces, but it seems everyone is avoiding the ICH5 controller in preference for their secondary SATA controllers. I know I avoided the ICH5 controller since my research stated that there wasn't support for it in the default Suse kernel at the time. I wish you the best of luck in solving this problem as I would like to know the answer also (if there is one). -- Best regards, Brian Curtis