Comment 4 for bug 47197

I can also confirm this bug.

Due to the popularity of this controller card, I have no doubt that this issue is probably the source to many of the "Mounting root file system" hangs people are seeing.

I was able to resolve the issue following the steps provided by Simcha, however, upon doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, my kernel was updated and my grub menu.lst was reset.

Please fix this bug! It's incredibly annoying!