Hi, ok, proceeding step by step: I launch the system from the livecd with the option you said (noapic, nolapic, acpi=off, irqpoll), Gabriel, and saved the output of the command to a file (see the attachment) and then I've done the same thing booting the system from the hard disk (pata, the only one recongized). I tried booting without the option "quiet" but nothing appeared to be strange...
I checked into the bios for a sata controller page (and being not so expert i " transcribed" it into a text file) and the only thing strange, in my opinion, was that the sataII controller was set to IDE and not to SATA...i'll try to change it in the next reboot. The hardware connected to the motherboard is a 30GB PATA HD (primary ide master), a DVDRW device (connected to the secondary ide master) and a 160GB SATA HD (that is connected to the sataII port); that's all for now...if you need something more specific, i'll try to be the best to answer your question. thanks for your help! ** Attachment added: "some bios info, some "ls" from the live cd and from the installed system" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7101394/BIOS_info-ls%2A.tar.bz2 -- can't find sata disk kubuntu 7 beta https://launchpad.net/bugs/95383 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
