Ubuntu - To skip hard drive check that caused System to not boot up

When booting up,
The following is observed again and again, endlessly.....There is potentially something wrong with the hard drive blocks. (bad-blocks maybe)

ata2.00: atatus: {DRDY}
ata2: soft resetting link
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata2:EH Complete

There is a work-around to skip the hard drive check so that the system will boot up

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Appending the following to the kernel boot options:

irqpoll noprobe=ata2