it was the new harddisk driver. ata_piix does not work for my harddisk controller! using the old driver works just fine and show no errors whatsoever. i recommend the ubuntu people blacklist the new ata_piix driver for now.
the workaround i used is as follows: * add the following lines to your /etc/initramfs-tools/modules: piix ide_generic ide_cd ide_disk * run update-initramfs -u then update /etc/fstab and perhaps your grub configuration. note: the modules libata, ata_generic and scsi_mod are still loaded, i haven't figured out how to get rid of those yet, i suppose i could always do it manually. -- Extremely Slow boot up PATA disk detected as sda https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94981 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
