Comment 23 for bug 335968

Hi, I apparently solved the problem (Ubuntu 10.10, but it had the same problems on 10.04, Athlon x2 5000 Nforce2 machine) working on bios settings: switched the sata configuration to AHCI. Previously i tested many solutions suggested in various forums, like switching the boot order (first dvd player then hd), and manually adding hald to rc.local or cdrom configuration in fstab, all without any result. I still have minor issues on an external usb HD which doesn't automount. The strange thing is that in fstab my boot device (fixed disk) is indicated as /dev/sda1, instead it is /dev/sb1 and mounted as /. I think that automount of external drive fails because it tries to mount it as /dev/sdb1 (looking at dmesg|tail), which is the HD. It works flawlessy with manual mount as /dev/sda1... I'm a big newbie of Ubuntu I don't know if anything of the above makes any sense, however i'm pretty satisfied after a month of useless tests. Maybe adding usbmount could solve the last problem?