no real kernel patches needed any more. We use FILO and it brings up the IDE just fine, etherboot works well too. Go to freebios.sourceforge.net to find the source tree. To check it out: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/freebios login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/freebios co freebios2