System Recovery

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Labitt, Bruce
<labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com> wrote:
> It installed some ata_piix ?? stuff

  That's the driver module for your motherboard's SATA adapter.
Normal.  (The name is vestigial; "PIIX" was some old Intel IDE
controller chipset, circa 1995.)

> then back to black screen a long list of hex addresses?

  Sounds like a kernel crash ("oops").  Abnormal.  It's not a good
sign that it happened during initialization of the rescue environment.
 That suggests you may have a low-level hardware fault, like some bad
RAM.

-- Ben