Seems as I have the same problem with the herd 5 of feisty fawn (running from cd)..
Got the same errors as FiNeX but I got it to boot with the 'irqpoll' boot option.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Strange that I get a Bug message about a soft lockup (hde is my SATA harddisk) [ 6.717856] hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 < hde5 > [ 6.795585] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e01800003c695d] [ 9.848805] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 9.848827] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 9.998884] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 9.998900] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 12.379976] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 12.379988] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 12.502617] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 12.502631] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 22.089910] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! But finally I got the system to boot and I also could mount my SATA harddisk.. If you need any further information, let me know.. ** Attachment added: "lspci -vv and dmesg output.." http://librarian.launchpad.net/6874822/dmesg_lspci -- [Feisty] Serial Ata drive not recognize in 2.6.20 https://launchpad.net/bugs/83313 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs