On 10/12/06, Donovan Niesen <dniesen at gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure if your Googling has already taken you down this road but somebody > else with that chipset was able to boot using this: > > Bios option : ACHI mode for SATA > booting time command: > > linux pci=nommconf > We have a winner! I must've skipped over that setting, as I now see it sitting in the Ubuntu wiki I looked at yesterday (though not nearly as plainly worded, and without the boot arg). The NIC still doesn't work, but I can get my hands on a kernel that should take care of that. Thanks a lot for all the suggestions, folks! sm