> Then your problem is clear. You have a BIOS bug. Dang... Ok, that's something we can deal with.. have to go hunting on the MSI site for a new BIOS and flash it. My brother can do that... I hope :-)
> sata controller BIOS). Explanation: The EDD code calls into the BIOS > before the kernel enters protected mode, so if that call hangs, your > machine will not boot. Interesting.. that's good to know... > Hm, is your computer by any chance manufactured by Fujitsu-Siemens? Nope. It's a "home built" system, assembled from various individual bits. > Did I understand correctly that you can boot into Linux with SATA > enabled and edd=off? If not, can you find a pattern when Linux with SATA > works, like only the first time after switching on the machine, or only > if no CD/DVD was in any drive or something like that? I tried listing all the combinations we've tried... but I have ot check again with my brother... just to be sire... so I'll try to follow up on this later. We do have a fairly repeatable pattern where Linux will boot initially (without the edd=off param), but if we enable SATA at any point and boot to Windows, then disable SATA and try to boot Linux it's dead, and remains dead. only a reinstall seems to "resurrect" it again. Using edd=off, and with SATA enabled, we were able to get it working, but there were still intermittent boot problems - sometimes it will take 3 or 4 tries to get Linux to boot. We will try a BIOS update, and I'll try to get a complete list of the combinations we've tried and results... C. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
