Hello all, I have a QDI Kinetiz 7E-A motherboard with a vt82c686b VIA IDE controller. The installation CD for SuSE 8.1 hangs when initializing the controller. The last messages I get from the kernel are: [...] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci:00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio I have tried disabling UDMA in the BIOS, booting with safe settings, using options such as "nodma" and "noautotune" as well as disconnecting the DVD/CD-RW and leaving only the HDD online. Nothing works. As a side note, the same thing happens when I try booting the system with Debian woody (both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels). Ironically, the system has had SuSE 8.0 installed and working fine for many months and will happily boot from the SuSE 8.0 installation CD. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong? What are the differences among the 8.0 and 8.1 kernel configurations? Is there a way to upgrade using the 8.0 kernel? -- To err is human, but to forgive is beyond the scope of the Operating System... Alexandros Karypidis University of Thessaly Computer & Communications Engineering dept.