Could not detect stabilization, waiting 10 seconds

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 19:32:15 -0500,
  Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:06:18PM +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  > Just booted newest rawhide 1686 kernel, and just before the normal
>  > boot messages start (I have rhgb removed from boot options), this
>  > message I've never before seen appears at the top of the screen:
>  > 
>  > Could not detect stabilization, waiting 10 seconds
>  > 
>  > What the heck does that mean? (Everything seems to have booted OK
>  > after it said that).
>  > 
>  > kernel-2.6.27.4-79.fc10.i686 was the one just installed.
>  
> This is from mkinitrd, not the kernel.
> It means that it couldn't tell when the kernel had done enumerating
> hard disks, so decided to play it safe and wait a while.
> 
> What storage controller do you have?

I saw this on my work machine for sure. I don't remember if I saw it
at home as well. 
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB SATA AHCI Controller (rev 09)