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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

        I am in the fortunate position of having just bought a new machine (1 
GB RAM, CPU 2GH+) with a matched pair of 120 GB SATA hard drives. This was 
built for me with no, repeat NO, operating system installed. This is for me 
to play with top-of-the-range Linux distros, and is not going to be 
mission-critical for a long time.  I  have set up a DOS partition on drive 1, 
and have successfully installed SW 10.2 (booting with loadlin from C:), 
together with a Ubuntu (ditto), (not impressed with Ubuntu !). 
SuSE 10.1 insists on installing GRUB, which I am not so sure about, so I have 
aborted that installation.
And I thought it would be nice to see how BL3 performs on such a fast machine.

       Unfortunately, I cannot get BL3 (loop) to run properly, it gets kernel 
panic when it doesn't find its files in C:\baslin, because it doesn't seem to 
be able to read the SATA drive (although it does record hde1, hde2 during the 
first part of the bootup).  I tried editing initrd.img (on another machine) 
to include a search of hde1, hde2, and copied it over, but that also failed.
  
       SATA - Serial ATA hard drive.     (?)

       Any ideas ?

Regards,
         Ron 

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Ron Clarke 
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