FC3 installation problem - SATA?

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I'm trying to install FC3 on this:

Athlon XP 2800+
Asus A7V8X-X mainboard with VIA VT8273 SATA controller
2x Maxtor SATAs, 80GB each
2x old IDE disks, 20GB each

I've installed FC3 on the SATA disks -
- 100MB /boot partition /dev/sda1 on one SATA with GRUB on that disk's MBR, BIOS set to boot from SATA
- some swap on both disks
- Software RAID /, /var and /home partitions, all ext3, on md0, md1 & md2 spanning both SATAs

FC3 install went fine - used Disk Druid to set up the partitions and RAID devices, formatted, installed, completed ok. But now, when I boot, I get GRUB ok, I get the kernel booting up and some kernel modules (including sata_via) loaded and md devices all set up, then boot just stops without any error messages. It's still responding - if I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del then I get some messages saying "md: stopping devices" etc., then reboot. I really can't figure this one out.

After a failed boot, I can boot into rescue mode and see AND access all of my md devices. I can also use rescue mode to check the output of dmesg from the failed boot, all of which is in the post below...

By the way, /dev/hda has FC3 installed on it too - that's where I am now - and that's where swap is added from in the last message above. This installation boots ok when the SATA disks are unplugged, but hangs similarly when the SATAs are plugged in. /dev/hdb is a backup disk, FAT32 formatted for transferring files from windows (I'm migrating). These disks aren't the problem - same thing happens when I unplug them.

My GRUB entry is standard:
title(Fedora Core 2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/md0 rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img

Does anyone have any ideas as to what's stopping my system from booting fully? I'm completely new to Linux (but I know my way around a UNIX shell).

Thanks in advance (for any help whatsoever!)

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ait for ready failed before probe !
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 40021632 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39704/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 39862368 sectors (20409 MB) w/472KiB Cache, CHS=39546/16/63, UDMA(66)
hdb: cache flushes not supported
hdb: hdb1
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 9362)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
ACPI wakeup devices:
PCI0 PCI1 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 SU20 MC97 SLAN
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.9-1.667
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
SCSI subsystem initialized
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.4[C] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 3, pci mem e0824000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 10, io base 0000a400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.1[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 10, io base 0000a000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.2[B] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 4, io base 00009800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.3[B] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 4, io base 00009400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 4-1: new low speed USB device using address 2
input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft IntelliMouse® Optical] on usb-0000:00:10.2-1
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xe5000000, 00:0e:a6:25:2d:06, IRQ 10.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link 45e1.
libata version 1.02 loaded.
sata_via version 0.20
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): routed to hard irq line 10
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD800 ctl 0xD402 bmdma 0xB400 irq 4
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD000 ctl 0xB802 bmdma 0xB408 irq 4
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003 88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 160086528 sectors:
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : sata_via
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003 88:407f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 160086528 sectors:
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : sata_via
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y080M0 Rev: YAR5
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y080M0 Rev: YAR5
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sdb: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 < sdb5 >
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
cdrom: open failed.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
Unable to load NLS charset utf8
Unable to load NLS charset utf8
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev hdb1.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
Unable to load NLS charset utf8
Unable to load NLS charset utf8
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
Unable to load NLS charset utf8
Unable to load NLS charset utf8
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
Unable to load NLS charset utf8
Unable to load NLS charset utf8
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev loop1.
security: 3 users, 4 roles, 280 types, 16 bools
security: 53 classes, 5494 rules
SELinux: Completing initialization.
SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks.
SELinux: initialized (dev loop1, type cramfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev usbdevfs, type usbdevfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev ram0, type ext2), uses xattr
inode_doinit_with_dentry: no dentry for dev=ram0 ino=126
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), not configured for labeling
SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
pIII_sse : 1728.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1728.000 MB/sec)
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid6: int32x1 816 MB/s
raid6: int32x2 976 MB/s
raid6: int32x4 773 MB/s
raid6: int32x8 605 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 1718 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2 3156 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1 1613 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2 2691 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse1x2 (2691 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered as nr 8
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
md: anaconda(pid 405) used deprecated START_ARRAY ioctl. This will not be supported beyond 2.6
md: autorun ...
md: considering sdb2 ...
md: adding sdb2 ...
md: adding sda3 ...
md: created md1
md: bind<sda3>
md: bind<sdb2>
md: running: <sdb2><sda3>
md1: setting max_sectors to 512, segment boundary to 131071
raid0: looking at sdb2
raid0: comparing sdb2(10241280) with sdb2(10241280)
raid0: END
raid0: ==> UNIQUE
raid0: 1 zones
raid0: looking at sda3
raid0: comparing sda3(10241280) with sdb2(10241280)
raid0: EQUAL
raid0: FINAL 1 zones
raid0: done.
raid0 : md_size is 20482560 blocks.

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raid0 : conf->hash_spacing is 20482560 blocks.
raid0 : nb_zone is 1.
raid0 : Allocating 4 bytes for hash.
md: ... autorun DONE.
md: anaconda(pid 405) used deprecated START_ARRAY ioctl. This will not be supported beyond 2.6
md: autorun ...
md: considering sdb1 ...
md: adding sdb1 ...
md: adding sda2 ...
md: created md0
md: bind<sda2>
md: bind<sdb1>
md: running: <sdb1><sda2>
md0: setting max_sectors to 512, segment boundary to 131071
raid0: looking at sdb1
raid0: comparing sdb1(20482560) with sdb1(20482560)
raid0: END
raid0: ==> UNIQUE
raid0: 1 zones
raid0: looking at sda2
raid0: comparing sda2(20482560) with sdb1(20482560)
raid0: EQUAL
raid0: FINAL 1 zones
raid0: done.
raid0 : md_size is 40965120 blocks.
raid0 : conf->hash_spacing is 40965120 blocks.
raid0 : nb_zone is 1.
raid0 : Allocating 4 bytes for hash.
md: ... autorun DONE.
md: anaconda(pid 405) used deprecated START_ARRAY ioctl. This will not be supported beyond 2.6
md: autorun ...
md: considering sdb5 ...
md: adding sdb5 ...
md: adding sda6 ...
md: created md2
md: bind<sda6>
md: bind<sdb5>
md: running: <sdb5><sda6>
md2: setting max_sectors to 512, segment boundary to 131071
raid0: looking at sdb5
raid0: comparing sdb5(48684800) with sdb5(48684800)
raid0: END
raid0: ==> UNIQUE
raid0: 1 zones
raid0: looking at sda6
raid0: comparing sda6(48684800) with sdb5(48684800)
raid0: EQUAL
raid0: FINAL 1 zones
raid0: done.
raid0 : md_size is 97369600 blocks.
raid0 : conf->hash_spacing is 97369600 blocks.
raid0 : nb_zone is 1.
raid0 : Allocating 4 bytes for hash.
md: ... autorun DONE.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev md1, type ext3), uses xattr
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev md0, type ext3), uses xattr
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev md2, type ext3), uses xattr
md: md1 stopped.
md: unbind<sdb2>
md: export_rdev(sdb2)
md: unbind<sda3>
md: export_rdev(sda3)
md: md0 stopped.
md: unbind<sdb1>
md: export_rdev(sdb1)
md: unbind<sda2>
md: export_rdev(sda2)
md: md2 stopped.
md: unbind<sdb5>
md: export_rdev(sdb5)
md: unbind<sda6>
md: export_rdev(sda6)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type ext3), uses xattr
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda3, type ext3), uses xattr
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev sda1, type ext3), uses xattr
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
md: autorun ...
md: considering sdb2 ...
md: adding sdb2 ...
md: adding sda3 ...
md: created md1
md: bind<sda3>
md: bind<sdb2>
md: running: <sdb2><sda3>
md1: setting max_sectors to 512, segment boundary to 131071
raid0: looking at sdb2
raid0: comparing sdb2(10241280) with sdb2(10241280)
raid0: END
raid0: ==> UNIQUE
raid0: 1 zones
raid0: looking at sda3
raid0: comparing sda3(10241280) with sdb2(10241280)
raid0: EQUAL
raid0: FINAL 1 zones
raid0: done.
raid0 : md_size is 20482560 blocks.
raid0 : conf->hash_spacing is 20482560 blocks.
raid0 : nb_zone is 1.
raid0 : Allocating 4 bytes for hash.
md: ... autorun DONE.
md: autorun ...
md: considering sdb1 ...
md: adding sdb1 ...
md: adding sda2 ...
md: created md0
md: bind<sda2>
md: bind<sdb1>
md: running: <sdb1><sda2>
md0: setting max_sectors to 512, segment boundary to 131071
raid0: looking at sdb1
raid0: comparing sdb1(20482560) with sdb1(20482560)
raid0: END
raid0: ==> UNIQUE
raid0: 1 zones
raid0: looking at sda2
raid0: comparing sda2(20482560) with sdb1(20482560)
raid0: EQUAL
raid0: FINAL 1 zones
raid0: done.
raid0 : md_size is 40965120 blocks.
raid0 : conf->hash_spacing is 40965120 blocks.
raid0 : nb_zone is 1.
raid0 : Allocating 4 bytes for hash.
md: ... autorun DONE.
md: autorun ...
md: considering sdb5 ...
md: adding sdb5 ...
md: adding sda6 ...
md: created md2
md: bind<sda6>
md: bind<sdb5>
md: running: <sdb5><sda6>
md2: setting max_sectors to 512, segment boundary to 131071
raid0: looking at sdb5
raid0: comparing sdb5(48684800) with sdb5(48684800)
raid0: END
raid0: ==> UNIQUE
raid0: 1 zones
raid0: looking at sda6
raid0: comparing sda6(48684800) with sdb5(48684800)
raid0: EQUAL
raid0: FINAL 1 zones
raid0: done.
raid0 : md_size is 97369600 blocks.
raid0 : conf->hash_spacing is 97369600 blocks.
raid0 : nb_zone is 1.
raid0 : Allocating 4 bytes for hash.
md: ... autorun DONE.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on md0, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev md0, type ext3), uses xattr
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
program anaconda is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on md0, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev md0, type ext3), uses xattr
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev sda1, type ext3), uses xattr
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on md2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev md2, type ext3), uses xattr
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on md1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev md1, type ext3), uses xattr
Adding 1052248k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1

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I've resolved this now. Adding pci=noacpi agument to the grub.conf kernel line.