Comment 9 for bug 75055

I've run into a somewhat similar bug with herd-5. I was able to boot the livecd and install with only an IDE attached, but when I hooked up a secondary SATA drive, the Live CD would panic during boot and the already installed system would have various IRQ-related problems, boot up very slowly, and fail to recognize both the SATA drive and the network card.

Using the irqpoll option had no effect.

The fix for me was to turn *on* RAID in the BIOS. No idea why that fixed it, but all the problems disappeared.

    product: Dimension XPS Gen 2
    vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
    BIOS:
         version: A02 (10/20/2003)
          capabilities: pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect edd int13floppytoshiba int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb agp ls120boot biosbootspecification netboot

         *-storage
             description: RAID bus controller
             product: 82801ER (ICH5R) SATA Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.2
             bus info: pci@00:1f.2
             logical name: scsi0
             logical name: scsi1
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: storage bus_master emulated scsi-host
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
             resources: ioport:fe00-fe07 ioport:fe10-fe13 ioport:fe20-fe27 iopor
t:fe30-fe33 ioport:fea0-feaf irq:18
           *-disk
                description: SCSI Disk
                product: Maxtor 6Y160M0
                vendor: ATA
                physical id: 0.0.0
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/sda
                version: YAR5
                serial: Y48ZFXGE
                size: 152GB
                capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                configuration: ansiversion=5