Well, I take back comment #26. The workaround still works. However, piix being missing, DMA cannot not enabled for /dev/hda, which makes the computer rather slow, as if a three year old Pentium M 1.6G laptop became an antique Pentium III 800Mhz machine. Attaching dmesg log with ide modules loaded by initramfs.
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