The other day I thought I would switch over to Linux on my desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that I am having some trouble. It freezes at "Waiting for root filesystem" as I install. The MD5 on the disk checks out, have tried a few burns as well.
The distro is Kubuntu 6.06. I have an ABit IP35-E Motherboard. Some Googling revealed other IP35-E issues circulating around that JMicron SATA controller and people with all SATA drives. Unfortunately that is my case. It was suggested in many forums that you add "--irqpoll" as a boot option, but that does not work. Since it is the JMicron chip running the SATA show, I cannot put my drives into AHCI mode, which the kernel is looking for.
Is there a parameter to not use AHCI? Or what am I missing? I would really like to move over to my comfy Kubuntu world . . . .
edit: Seems like some have found sucess by installing with the alternate install disk, and then adding "all_generic_ide" to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst. I am downloading the alternate CD as I post this. Will update on how it went.