On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:52:18AM -0400, Spencer Cheng wrote: > I am trying to convert a machine at work from a stock Debian 486 kernel to > a stock amd64 kernel so we can actually use more than 1GB of memory and I > am running into problems with the SATA link not coming up (and therefore no > HD). Have you tried the linux-image-2.6-686 kernel? I have had to use that on buggy hardware. If you have more then 4GB ram use the linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem package. Have you flashed to board to the most recent bios? > The motherboard is an ASUS M2A-VM which has the ATI SB-600 chips. 5 years ago Asus had a reputation of good quality, but the handfull of Asus boards I have worked with the the last 2 years have been nothing but trouble. -- sg