On Sep 11, Phil Nelson wrote
> I believe that the problem was created in the integration of the ATAPI stuff.
> Kernels built before the ATAPI integration worked just fine.  Ones after the
> integration hang.
> 

You only have an ATAPI CD on your IDE controllers, don't you ?
Did you try disabling ide controllers and ATAPI stuffs in your kernel config
file ?

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