Ok I posted this before but am still having problems getting the
system to boot from the hard drive. It boots normally from a
syslinux bootdisk though and uses the same kernel either way.

I have the same problem on 4 different systems so somewhere I
must be missing something.

1) System PII 400MHz 128 MB ram 2 disks
2) System PII 400MHz 128 MB ram 4 disks
3) System 2x450MHz PII XEON 2GB ram 2 disks
4) System 2x2.66GHz P4 XEON 2GB ram 2 disks

All drives are set to cable select.
All partitions are reiserfs (except swap of course).
All drives are seen as Master (separate channels)

I have done the install several different ways on each system and
still the systems hang during system boot if booted from the hard
drive. The message below is the last couple of lines before all
the systems listed above hang.


Going multiuser...
Starting sysklogd daemons: /usr/sbin/syslogd /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3 -x
Starting OpenSSH SSH daemon: /usr/sbin/sshd


Here are the last couple of lines when I ALT+F2 and run dmesg on
system 2 from the list above.

scsi0: SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device md(9,1)) ...


And yet all systems boot properly all the way to the login prompt
if booted from a syslinux bootdisk using the same kernel.

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Slackware 9.1.0 Kernel 2.4.26 SMP i686 (GCC) 3.3.3
Uptime:4 days, 18:00, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 1.03, 1.01