> I would love to try the patch. And I'm still baffled as to why the > installer works but the standard kernels don't. > > Peace > > uriel
it is the sdata patch i posted a few weeks ago. Sep 8 13:00:49 EDT 2008 /n/dump/2008/0922/sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c 54744 [quanstro] /n/dump/2008/0922/sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c:1421 c /n/dump/2008/0908/sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c:1421 < if(ataready(cmdport, ctlport, drive->dev, Bsy|Drq, Drdy, 101*1000) < 0) --- > if(ataready(cmdport, ctlport, drive->dev, Bsy|Drq, 0, 101*1000) < 0) if this doesn't fix the problem, i'll see if i can't do a vmware install and see what the problem is. - erik
