Debian Installation Boot Program missing something

[Bhaskar Manda <bhaskar@or4.me.uiuc.edu>]

My disk controller seems to be wanting to be "reset", but the
Debian install boot doesn't do this. As a consequence, it just
keeps repeating
   hda: hda: Status error: status=0x01 { Error }
   hda: Status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
   hda: Drive not ready for command.

The Slackware install boot on the other hand, does the following.

     hda: hda: Status error: status=0x01 { Error }
   hda: Status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
   hda: Drive not ready for command.
        [.. this error msg is repeated thrice.. ]
   ide0: reset success
   hda1 hda2 hda3
   VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into ramdisk and press ENTER.


I guess no Debian for me for now.
-bhaskar