Don't know, just installed the defaults. Since I cannot boot the CentOS or Ubuntu installes I can't even check to see what I've installed. MB is a Biostar 6100-939. The 300G HD is an IDE drive. Swapped it out for a newer SATA drive and it works fine. This weekend I'll put the 300G IDE in a different PC with a different MB and try it out.

Billy Crook billycrook@gmail.com wrote: are the kernel options set the same on the working and non-working installs? Perhaps there's something funny with the ide controller that centos and ubuntu don't cope with by default, but the others do?

On 3/26/07, James Sissel jimsissel@yahoo.com wrote: Why would a new 300G hard drive format and run Windows 2000 fine, load and run Trustix Linux 2.2 and 3.0.5 fine, load CentOS 4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06 TLS fine but when it comes time to boot them give a "Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical sector 0" and then fail to recognize any of the partitions? _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug