* single.1 wrote in grml's BTS on 20091112 / 11:33:

> Sorry, I didn't do a tab in the failsafe option prior to boot to
> see that "pci=nomsi" was there.  I removed it and all booted okay.
> Had sata problems that I have seen before and grml2hd still
> doesn't see the HDD.

Ok, thanks.

Does an older grml version work for you?
Does adding bootoptions 'noapic nolapic' change anything?
Does addding 'verbose debug=vc debug initcall_debug' tell you any
further details (both with and without pci=nomsi)?

regards,
-mika-