On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:34:43 -0400, Robert Glueck wrote:

> I installed Slackware v.11 (-current from 9/11/06) on a Dell
> Inspiron 6400 laptop with Intel Core Duo processor and an
> internal SATA hard disk drive. I picked the sata.i kernel
> both for the installation and for running the installed
> system; the kernel version is 2.4.33.3.
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> I added the following stanza for Slackware to Xandros'
> lilo.conf:
>
> image=/disks/welcome_2/boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.33.3
> label=Slackware_11_on_sda8
> root=/dev/sda8
> read-only

That looks like the generic kernel to me, not the sata kernel you
mentioned earlier. Replace with the correct kernel, or build an
appropriate initrd. For 2.6.x kernels, I think the module you need is
ata_piix. I don't know which module for the 2.4.x kernel, but the newer
2.6.x kernel worked better for me with similar hardware (Dell Latitude
D610).
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Douglas Mayne