Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope on a Asus A8V-MX motherboard with SATA drives only

Note to self: if you want to install Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) on a Asus A8V-MX motherboard and you have SATA drives only, they will not be recognized unless you load the kernel with these options:

irqpoll noapic pci=nomsi

These options should be added to your grub boot configuration as well.