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On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:31:43 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> OK, I took a few minutes away from his Half Life game to look at |
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> BIOS. I found the AHCI option and enabled it. Of course he wanted to |
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> get back to gaming so we tried to boot back into Windows but XP goes |
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> blue screen at the first disk access with AHCI enabled. |
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This laptop is similar, Vista won't boot with AHCI enabled. I guess |
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Windows just doesn't like standards :( |
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> Possibly XP might work if it installed with AHCI enabled but |
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> typical of Windows it doesn't like configuration changes after it's |
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> installed. |
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> Is there any other solution for this or is the only Linux support |
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> going to require AHCI? It is unfortunately not reasonable or practical |
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> to switch BIOS options when choosing which OS to boot. |
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You only need to use AHCI to boot the install CD. Then you can build a |
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kernel with drivers for your SATA controller for the installed system. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. |
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