A follow up. Setting the BIOS to "Legacy" SATA settings allowed DFB to bootup a little further but giving more error messages. Then disabling ACPI when booting DF got DF to fully boot.
The default BIOS setting of "Normal" allows for better speed but seems to map the IDE/SATA devices as SCSI. "Legacy" setting puts them back as straight IDE. Or something. I got this hint reading Pupply Linux forums. I have d/l'ed a few LiveCD lately and about half of them booted and half didn't. For the ones that didn't (like Puppy) I went searching in their forums. Apparently some linux distros are able to handle the latest chipsets without change, others aren't. Like DF. -- Scott N
