I'm having this problem when booting the installation disk...
it stops running after the line:

[#:#] ata1: sata ...blablabla... irq18
[#:#] ata2: sata ...blablabla... irq18
[#:#] ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors:

note: #'s are some numbers

then my cdrom stops running, no hdd activity either...

i have 2 sata hdd which i think shud b detected correctly as in the first 2 lines. the last line shud b my cdrom. correct me if i'm wrong... noob here...

can anyone help pls?

sry for the confusion. i'm using Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) CDs i requested from https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

i'm using 2 sata hdd n i've tried disabling 1 of em in the bios (din unplug thou) and problem persists. i even disabled all my extra rom drives (dvd, cdrw)...

thx.