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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I'm happy to be corrected (by Volker I'm sure) but that's my guess |
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>> as to what you're seeing. |
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> you are confusing bios calls and bios programming chips as.... also - is there |
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> any good reason to use IDE mode? Any? At all? |
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I don't believe I'm 'confusing bios calls with bios programming'. The |
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BIOS can do whatever it wants to in programming the chips as long as |
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grub can still find the kernel. After grub finds the kernel the kernel |
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is free to override whatever chip programming the BIOS has done and |
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reprogram the chips as it sees best. |
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I think the issue meino possibly has is that he likely didn't include |
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an Int13 type driver in the kernel or most likely his system would |
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have booted like it did in the _very_ old days. |
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I agree that there isn't any good reason I know of to use IDE mode |
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unless the other modes the BIOS provides don't work. |
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I cannot get into my Asus BIOS at the moment, but as I remember it |
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Asus gave me something like |
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IDE |
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AHCI |
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AHCI + compatibility |
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IIRC I had to use the last one to get mine to boot but I may be wrong |
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about that. I only mention this as meino is also using Asus so he |
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might look for similar options. |
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- Mark |
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