I got the same "can't acess tty" error, with Feisty Beta and Kubuntu, with this output:
[81.450108] ata2.00: port failed to respond (30 seconds, Status 0xd0) [83.260473] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [83.260520] ata2.00: (BDMA stat 0x65) [83.260564] ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 d ata 254 in [83.752693] ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) [118.720776] ata2.00: port failed to respond (30 seconds, Status 0xd0) lspci output is attached And I agree, this is a serious issue! ** Attachment added: "lspci -vvnn output" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7380510/lspcioutput.txt -- Feisty boot fail "can't access tty" IDE SATA problem https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106864 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs