Comment 17 for bug 222176

I'm having similar problems on two ASUS boxes, both with SATA drives attached.

One of them, an ASUS V8M-MX/S, refuses to boot AT ALL after the Hardy upgrade. It always drops into the initramfs screen.
Adding all_generic_ide "fixed" it, in the sense that it now boots, but I have no idea if this has resulted in degraded performance, etc.

The other box, also an ASUS, but I don't have the MB name handy, is an Opteron-based board. It frequently requires
several hard boots (reset button) to boot after power-up, stopping in the same screen as above. Also, reboots
from the shutdown menu frequently stall the same way. I have NOT tried all_generic_ide, but will do that and see if
it helps.

This is irritating, and I'd like to see it fixed. If someone has fault-isolation suggestions (NOT workarounds - I want this
fixed properly), I'm happy to try them, within reason.

I'll post an update to this after a few reboots with all_generic_ide.