I investigated a little further for the SATA controller.. It says that in general kernel 2.6 does not support it.. I read tips like disabling from BIOS : 1) Apic Mode --> disable 2) SATA --> disable OR tranform SATA/RAID to SATA ONLY.. The first option was available on my BIOS..and so I turn that off.. But for the second..I saw nothing.. I also added to the boot options : noapic, nolapic, acpi-off But, again..Nothing of all that solved the problem... Waouw..imagine the day we'll solve this problem..I'll have learned a lot of things..don't desesperate..it is funny..well..in fact..I want to do music..but ok..I'll be patient..I hope the problem will be solved..:-)

From the boot screen msgs..I have also : "detectecting hardware : open_sock() : No such device"

Also, the message "Starting PCMCIA services : no socket found" is still there..although I have the nopcmcia option in grub.. (for the 2 messages above..I see that in common they talk about sockets..) So..where are we? What's next on the check list :-) ?? Bye bye