On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:56:22 -0400
Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk%voicenet.com@localhost> wrote:
Using GENERIC on 5.0 (or -CURRENT as of today), my system hangs
immediately after probing ahcisata. If I boot with the -c option and
then disable ahcisata from userconf, the system boots up just fine
(but doesn't see my SATA disks, obviously). I have seen similar
reports, mostly from 2008, mostly with suggestions to update and try
again as it was a known, fixed problem.
What kind of machine is it? I've had similar problems with a Dell
Dimension 8400. What I had to do was stick with a back-rev of one of
the ahci files, though I think that switching in the BIOS to ATA
emulation would work, too.