boot error ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: no available legacy port [SOLVED]

[m.ardito]

Hi, i was installing pve on debian lenny amd64,
on a atest desktop pc with intel core2 duo cpu, 3gb ram, and sata drives

everything went well but at the first boot with pve kernel 2.6.18-2-pve we had a few errors:
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Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range
PCI: BIOS BUG: MCFG area at d0000000 is not E820-reserverd
PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
Loading, please wait...
error ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: no available legacy port
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and here the boot stopped:

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after some googling, i found out that the last line was the problem, this thread:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=16334

and following this:
"It turns out that the IDE driver was loading before the SATA driver and that caused the sata drives to be found as /dev/hdx instead of /dev/sdx
Specifying: ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe in the kernel arguments solves this problem."

solved the problem (it was: kernel was looking for IDE, finding none, and stopping the boot)

HTH

Marco