Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa


Hello,

I just installed the latest etch distro (kernel 2.6.18-3-686) onto a whitebox intel pc running an Adaptec 2420sa raid controller and 4x sata 750gb hd's. The raid is configured as raid5 on three drives with the 4th running hotspare.

The etch installer booted fine, saw the raid vol, let me partition it and run a full install. I installed the grub loader into mbr and all looked fine and dandy.

The unit boots to the grub menu just fine. When I select the kernel to boot, it gives me the folloeing and just hangs:

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Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-686'

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x131990]
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686
[Linux-initrd @ 0x1fba9000, 0x44675b bytes]

savedefault

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Any suggestions?
I booted to rescue mode and mounted the partition. The kernel images are there and look ok.

Thanks,

-kyle

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