Continuing the saga: F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:48:31AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> 
> >2.6.25-0.90.rc3.git5.fc9 which John added to bugzilla, you have
> >
> >ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 221 SControl 300)
> >
> >>It *might* actually be something in the sata driver..  
> 
> _I_ think it is. The initrd _does_ load, it's loaded by grub using BIOS 
> calls.

OK.  Still you will have a hard time switching / to something
which is not visible to your kernel.

I forgot, but did you try if 'irqpoll' makes a difference?
What about 'acpi=off'?  Not that you would really want to run
that way on a modern hardware but just for a check.

   Michal