I add a little thing about my fresh install try: before installation hung telling not being able to mount the cdrom drive, the screen was flooded but such messages (process stalled for a couple of minutes):
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata3.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:20:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 32 in cdb 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 res 40/00:02:00:0c:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata3.00: status: { DRDY } ata3: soft resetting link ata3.00: configured for UDMA/25 ata3: EH complete I also attach my box fstab, if it can be in any way useful. ** Attachment added: "dmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13973495/dmesg.txt -- IDE hard drives not visible https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222322 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