Responding to Mark Madsen...
> On Sat, 10 May 2008 22:34:48 +0000, Mike wrote:
>
>> Wuhoo! Slack 12.1 isos !!!
>> <http://planet64bit.de/taxonomy/term/4> (Yes, I DID md5sum them with the
>> slackware.com md5s!)
>>
>> Wipe old system, begin traditional Slack install procedure...
>>
>> Uh-oh! No "install from" CDROM found? Huh?
>
> Did you try booting with "ide=nodma"?

Nope. (Didn't even know to try that.) Did notice Zenwalker live CD
struggling around with dma for some minutes on boot though. This
really does seem to be a 2.6.x kernel thing.

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