I worked with the kernel devs on this a bit. One thing you can try is
hitting escape before the computer boots, then hitting the Edit button,
then goto the kernel line, edit again, and add pci=nomsi to the command
line right after quiet and splash. There is a bug in the bios of some
boards based on
Converted from 7.10 to 8.04 on the release version earlier today Using
the AMD64 version of ubuntu.
I ran into this problem on an ATI690 chipset based board. It was giving
me a
ATA1.00: failed to IDENTIFY
error message. 2.6.22 still booted as normal.
Searching for this turned up a hit with the
