Hello I am disturbing you with this problem because I think there is something to be learnt, I have no urgency or further-problem with my work-around.
Description: trying to boot with kernel 2.6.22 the booting process stops not finding the root partition, in the previous line it gives an EMPTY list of available partitions. Disabling completely the (Serial) ATA driver and enabling the old SATA driver is my work-around (a regresion). Installing linux with debian 4.0 is possible (kernel 2.6.18.4-amd64), but ubuntu crashes silently after loading kernel and initrd.image (I guess it is the same problem). Description of the machine, dmesg output with kernel 2.6.22, lspci, modules, cpu, iomem, ioports, acpi-table as well as instalation story at http://www.df.uba.ar/~solari/acer.html Hitachi 120Gb drive scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Hitachi HTS54161 SBDO PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ATI controller 00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc 4379 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 010f (pci.ids are up-to-day) The acpi system does not work either, but I have reported the problem to a more specific list. I can test patches in case you want. thanks for your attention Hernan -- HernĂ¡n Gustavo Solari, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.df.uba.ar/~solari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/