Somebody in the thread at some point said: > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 I had a laptop I upgraded that showed similar intractable symptoms... it was able to boot after I physically removed the DVD drive from the laptop. Since the same setup worked fine with older kernels I guess it will be able to go back in there one day when a later kernel can cope with the motherboard controller chipset or the DVD device or whatever it is it didn't like. -Andy
