Hi folks! As I write this, I would like to let you know that I managed to get UDMA66 working on this Abit BP6, thanks to all your help! :) I gave up the ghost on the PCI reverse attempt, and I followed a more "brutish" method. Here's the quick run-down: Abit BP6 NJ BIOS, 2x400 Celerons After building the 2.3.35 kernal with UDMA66 in, I added the following to the lilo.conf file: literal="pci=reverse". I then made sure that the system booted from EXT, DMA66 first in the BIOS boot order. Unfortunately, I this did nothing for me. :( The problem was that the hd was still being detected as hde, instead of the normal hda. I did notice, however, that if I disabled the first Ide controller via the BIOS settings, lilo/linux would then detect the hard drive as hda. So, one possible solution would have been to disable one of the PCI controllers. However, that was too much of a "phyrric victory" for me. I pressed on, and asked some more question here. Lunar and Luis Orrantia suggested that I give up trying to force hde to be detected as hda, and simply alter the fstab settings. I pursued this, and changed all of the fstab settings from hdaX to hdeX. I then rebooted. It was at this moment when I realized my problem: I forgot to alter /etc/lilo.conf accordingly, too! What a dilemma: a lilo that was looking for hdaX, and a linux trying to mount onto hdeX. After finding out that my boot disk was corrupted (yay), I had to perform the following to save my buttocks: 1) disable the first ide controller via the BIOS. This would make lilo/recognize my hde as hda. 2) reboot to linux so that I could go partway into the boot process. When it tried to mount the hde filesystem, I entered in my root password. 3) The filesystem on / was read-only, and it seemed that I could do nothing about this. The really sad part was that /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab are both under the / mount. Consequently, I could not change them! I did manage, however, to mount one of the other filesystems (/dev/hda5 on /boot) with read-write permissions. 4) copy /etc/lilo.conf to /boot. Edit the new lilo.conf file so that everything pointed to hde. 5) Ran lilo -C /boot/lilo.conf. 6) Shutdown the system, entered the BIOS and re-enabled the first ide controller. 7) Booted into linux, with udma66 running. :) Certainly a whacky way to do it, but I guarantee I will never make a mistake like that again! I'd like to thank those people who took the time out to help me out: Edward Schernau Hal Burgiss Lunar Andre Hedrick Luis Antonio Orrantia Thank you for your time and asistance! Regards, Dennis ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- =- To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the -= =- body of "unsubscribe linux-abit". -=
