'Stock' Well...I mean a vanilla one. Failed to boot...not 'cause of ahci problems though. Probably my own...
It MUST be the 2.6.17 kernel's fault, because Dapper does the same probing without timeout, nor does other distros with a diff. ver. of kernel -- ahci sata timeout causes bootup time up to 5 minutes https://launchpad.net/bugs/64495 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs