[17:06] <kjcole> Back for more fun and frolic (after a morning dentist visit. Ouchie.)
[17:07] <kjcole> The issue from yesterday appears to be related to an Intel N10/ICH7 PATA IDE drive controller.  So far, lots of folks with issues, and lots of -- to me -- random fixes offered...
[17:09] <kjcole> (a) change the BIOS SATA config from "Standard IDE" to "ACHI". (b) boot option "combined_mode=libata". (c) boot option "acpi=off". (d) boot options "irqpoll noprobe=ata4".
[17:09] <kjcole> (e) boot option "pci=nomsi".
[17:10] <kjcole> All of the above? None of the above? Just report that the computer accidentally fell out of a third story window? ;-)
[17:12] <kjcole> (Windows chkdsk gave its NTFS partition a clean bill of health, but Ubuntu's Disk Utility says it can see the drive but not identify what kind of partition its looking at.)
[17:12] <kjcole> ... in addition to the painfully slow boot and the lots of errors in dmesg.
[17:19] <kjcole> Rebooting now...  (Will check e-mail and possibly IRC log later.)