Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

[Kyle Messineo <kylem@jtsinc.net>]

Hello,

   I just installed the latest etch distro (kernel 2.6.18-3-686) onto a 
whitebox intel pc running an Adaptec 2420sa raid controller and 4x sata 
750gb hd's. The raid is configured as raid5 on three drives with the 4th 
running hotspare.

The etch installer booted fine, saw the raid vol, let me partition it 
and run a full install. I installed the grub loader into mbr and all 
looked fine and dandy.

The unit boots to the grub menu just fine. When I select the kernel to 
boot, it gives me the folloeing and just hangs:

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Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-686'

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 root=/dev/sda1 ro
  [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x131990]
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686
  [Linux-initrd @ 0x1fba9000, 0x44675b bytes]

savedefault

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Any suggestions?
I booted to rescue mode and mounted the partition. The kernel images are 
there and look ok.

Thanks,

-kyle

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