burnou7

Is that from personal experience or just a guess. Hpt372 drivers need to be compiled for the kernel that you want to use them for. I can't install Mandrake 9.2, so I can't compile against that kernel which means that I can't install Mandrake 9.2 . You see the catch-22. I am pretty sure that I am not the only person trying to install Mandrake 9.2 to a Soyo KT400 DUP motherboard and am hoping that someone else has run into this problem and knows some solution that can be implemented. If you have actually implemented your suggested solution, pray tell me how you did it so that I can follow suit.

I am trying to boot the 9.2 installation CD with my Soyo Dragon Ultra Platinum motherboard. I have a DVD burner on IDE0, A maxtor 60GB hd on IDE1, and two Seagate 80GB hd's on IDE 3 which is a Hpt372 Raid Controller currently operating as simply an additional IDE controller card. I always get a kernel panic when Linux tries to load the hda and hdb drives which are the two drives connected to the HPT372 controller. If I turn off the RAID controller in the BIOS, Mandrake boots just fine. I have tried the noapic acpi-ht boot options as well as the default boot option and a variety of others including ide=reverse which was required to get Mandrake 9.1 to boot with the same controller attached in the same manner. Has anyone else had this problem and have any idea how to fix it?