walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<86d6axj1zw.fsf@hotmail.com>...
>
> This is a kernel issue, not specific to any distribution. This is
> an active topic in the linux-kernel mailing list because support
> for SATA is still under active development and not yet bug-free.
>
> There have been several patches circulating there but I don't pay
> much attention since I don't have any SATA drives. If you are
> using a 2.4 kernel you might want to try a very recent 2.6-test
> kernel instead. The drivers tend to be newer.


Thanks, I just wanted to get one of the live distros working to have
as a rescue disk, I have tried a few more and :-

Suse and Gentoo - problem as above
Morphix - Prints an error "only one processor found" and hangs.
Knoppix - Works (so I will use that for the moment) but it also prints
the "only one processor found" like Morphix but continues to boot OK.