Comment 13 for bug 595448

Its a SATA DVD-RW drive so suggestions 1 and 2 don't make any sense.

As for number 3, I stated in my first post the motherboard BIOS is the latest available. The DVD drive firmware is also the most recent available.

As for 4&5, they are not applicable. The boot delay I submitted this bug before occurs well before the initramfs is expanded let alone the root file system mounted. So they just don't apply at all. Let me be very clear here. This pause in boot up occurs very early during kernel initialization before the initramfs is utilized. For example if I boot with a GRUB configuration line that has no initramfs specified the boot delay is still present. Of course the system fails to boot if I do this but I did try it out just to be sure it was not an initramfs issue which is why I submitted the bug against the kernel and not some component of the initramfs bootup system.

I am not sure what in general you want me to check for a workaround. As I previously posted I have already provided a solution.

The karmic kernel .config file had CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y specified while lucid specifies CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=m. this is the problem. It is a simple regression from karmic and is why I added the bitesize tag per the instructions on the wiki.