I ran into this once. If I remember right, the SATA controller had been set to run in AHCI mode in the BIOS, which not all kernels understand. It seems that it was poor XP that had the problem booting though.
Check it out, you should be able to set the BIOS to "RAID" or "IDE", instead of "SATA" or "AHCI".
Better yet would be to get a newer copy of the distros that you would like to try and see how they fare. AHCI has some nice features.
zensauce, Thanks for the help. I set it to RAID before and it would not boot from the CD at all even though I had it first in the boot devices list. Then I hit F12 to interactively select the CD and it did boot from the CD successfully. So RAID did work, but only if I select the CD from the BIOS list after hitting F12. In the BIOS the only options for SATA mode were RAID and IDE.
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October 25th, 2007 20:00
Message Edited by zensauce on 10-25-2007 03:23 PM
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