"panic: unable to mount root" => need sleep after loading SATA driver in initrd! Should udevstart wait?

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:54:39PM -0500, Stuart Levy wrote:
 > On several of our SATA+Opteron-based systems we've been unable to
 > run more recent Fedora Core 3 packaged kernels -- 2.6.10, 2.6.11.

Make sure you have the latest mkinitrd errata installed.
(The 2.6.12 errata kernel actually has it as a dependancy).

		Dave