Well, I did manage to narrow it down, it is definitely an issue with the HPT 372 controller card and Mandrake 9.2. 9.2 just will NOT boot with the RAID controller enabled in the BIOS, I tried just about every option that I know of on the lilo screen, including noapic, nolapic, ide=reverse, acpi=ht, acpi=off, etc. It always panics at the point where it should be loading the hde and hdf drives. When I turn the RAID controller completely off with the BIOS, it goes right to the setup screen without a hiccup.
The BIOS is the newest version and I have even flashed the ROM for the HPT controller to make sure that it was at the newest revision. Mandrake had some weird issue with shipping on my DVD order for 9.2 and given my problems with the ISO images, I have just canceled the order and may wait it out until the next version which will hopefully have better support or my motherboard. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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