Yea, the CPU speed reported within the boot log is my native CPU speed. I have applied the patch at no avail, I get the following now, but still have the timeout issue.
find_ide_controller: found PCI IDE controller 8086:7111 prog_if=0x8a find_ide_controller: primary channel: compatibility mode find_ide_controller: cmd_base=0x1f0 ctrl_base=0x3f4 ide_software_reset: Waiting for ide0 to become ready for reset... ok init_drive: Testing for hda init_drive: Probing for hda init_drive: LBA mode, sectors=2097152 init_drive: Init device params... ok hda: LBA 1073MB: VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive init_drive: Testing for hdb init_drive: Testing for hdb ide_readmany: sector 0 to 0011d760 IDE time out Disk read error dev=1 drive=0 sector=0 devread: read sector failed open_pc_partition: device read failed devopen: can't open partition 1 malloc_diag: alloc: 144 bytes (3 blocks), free: 16232 bytes (1 blocks)