The workaround as described in #76872 worked for me on both ICH4 and ICH6 chipset machines.
Now the trick is somehow changing that workaround. It seems there is a rather elaborate "root device hasn't shown up yet" segment that occurs post the call to local-top and the forced loading of ide-generic. Perhaps the ide-generic modprobe could be moved into there? -- initramfs above 0.85 does not detect sda... https://launchpad.net/bugs/76804 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs