Did you change your BIOS settings to "AHCI"? Maybe try booting with the following flags busratio=20 cpus=1. If that doesnt work, I would probably look at the HCL and see where you fit with your hardware. After further testing, my sata dvd drive is not recognized, my audio doesnt work, shutdown & restart dont work , and I'm only allowed to select one screensaver. For now, I would be happy with fixing reboot, shutdown & audio. Any suggestions are welcome.