Steve Morris <samorris@(protected):

> I have modified fstab and menu.lst to boot off this kernel. When I
> boot, right after determining what partitions exist on the hard disks,
> and the initscripts have decided to treat the ide disks as scsi
> devices, a trace is produced that ends in the message "Bad EID
> value". Given that when I boot back off the old kernel and check
> boot.log it is empty, where do I find the boot messages so that I can
> file a bug report.

That's a kernel crash. Please open a bug report in bugzilla.