Sorry that I dare to express my disagreement with your analysis, Morgan. I think we're in fact seeing two different issues here. When I look into the dmesg output you posted to the kernel bug report, I can see "SRST failed" messages from the kernel driver, which - as you wrote - in fact seem to indicate a timeout problem.
However, in my dmesg output, I don't see any error messages - the "SATA link down" messages just suggest that there are no drives connected at all, which obviously isn't true, since I can boot with 2.6.24 (or even 2.6.25) without any issues. So, in the end, I think although symptoms are quite the same, the low-level cause of this might be somewhat different... -- 2.6.27 SATA drives not accessible at boot time, 2.6.24 working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294123 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs