I just tried to boot from harddisk with the 3 options: noapic nolapic irqpoll
At first view, I don't see any difference with booting with only the irqpoll option. In fact, in both cases, there are no disk icons on the desktop; nor is there a trash icon on the panel. (May this is due to the fact, that my feisty is an upgrade of a not very clean edgy.) -- kernel 2.6.20-5 doesn't boot with sata-hd https://launchpad.net/bugs/78288 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs