I've run into a somewhat similar bug with herd-5. I was able to boot the livecd and install with only an IDE attached, but when I hooked up a secondary SATA drive, the Live CD would panic during boot and the already installed system would have various IRQ-related problems, boot up very slowly, and fail to recognize both the SATA drive and the network card.
Using the irqpoll option had no effect.
The fix for me was to turn *on* RAID in the BIOS. No idea why that fixed it, but all the problems disappeared.
I've run into a somewhat similar bug with herd-5. I was able to boot the livecd and install with only an IDE attached, but when I hooked up a secondary SATA drive, the Live CD would panic during boot and the already installed system would have various IRQ-related problems, boot up very slowly, and fail to recognize both the SATA drive and the network card.
Using the irqpoll option had no effect.
The fix for me was to turn *on* RAID in the BIOS. No idea why that fixed it, but all the problems disappeared.
product: Dimension XPS Gen 2
capabilities : pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect edd int13floppytoshiba int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb agp ls120boot biosbootspecifi cation netboot
vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
BIOS:
version: A02 (10/20/2003)
*-storage
descripti on: RAID bus controller
product: 82801ER (ICH5R) SATA Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
logical name: scsi0
logical name: scsi1
version: 02
capabilit ies: storage bus_master emulated scsi-host
configura tion: driver=ata_piix latency=0
resources : ioport:fe00-fe07 ioport:fe10-fe13 ioport:fe20-fe27 iopor
description: SCSI Disk
product: Maxtor 6Y160M0
vendor: ATA
physical id: 0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: YAR5
serial: Y48ZFXGE
size: 152GB
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration : ansiversion=5
bus info: pci@00:1f.2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
t:fe30-fe33 ioport:fea0-feaf irq:18
*-disk
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0