What I had to do so make Hardy run on this box was adding "irqpoll" boot parameter when running installation from CD and when running installed and upgraded version of Hardy.
Attached is output from # lspci -vvnn ** Attachment added: "output from # lspci -vvnn" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16346780/lspci.out -- ata2.00: exception emask 0x0 sact ... https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223014 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