CD detection failed on install.
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Bug Description
When booting from the Dapper CD to install on a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 motherboard with a Western Digital Caviar 200 GB SATA hard drive, it gets to the "mounting root file system" phase, waits for a little while, and reverts to the "uncompressing linux... booting the kernel" screen then hangs.
With the alternate CD for a text install, after booting the kernel, it says "ata2: disabling port","ata3: disabling port", and "ata4: disabling port". My hard drive is on ata1, and the board's only PATA port is ata5, where my CD drive is. After reaching the CD detection step of installation, it says "No common CD-ROM drive detected" and prompts to load a driver off a floppy. I have none, so say no, and none of the included drivers which can be chosen from work. This also happens with the Breezy Live CD, and appears to be a problem in the debian installer, because all debian-based systems I have tried this with have failed in the same way.
I have the same problem with the Dapper Live Cd. I'm running Athlon 64 2800+ on a MSI mobo and WD 400 GB sata drive with Plextor P916A DVDR sata drive. The bios and the drive firmware are uptodate.
It hangs for a long time on "mounting root file system", then eventually displays "booting the kernel". At this point the i386 Cd hangs forever.
The amd-64 Cd immediately bombs at this point and spews out a couple screens of erros that go by way too quick to read. I seem to recall something about "ata failed to respond" but it was way too quick. The XUbuntu amd-64 cd behaves the same.
The alternate amd-64 cd complains there is no valid cd-rom device.
Judging from the sheer volume of posts on the forums, Dapper has some serious problems with SATA.