Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

[Mark Knecht]

On Jan 7, 2008 12:15 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:31:43 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> >    OK, I took a few minutes away from his Half Life game to look at
> > BIOS. I found the AHCI option and enabled it. Of course he wanted to
> > get back to gaming so we tried to boot back into Windows but XP goes
> > blue screen at the first disk access with AHCI enabled.
> >
> This laptop is similar, Vista won't boot with AHCI enabled. I guess
> Windows just doesn't like standards :(
>
> >    Possibly XP might work if it installed with AHCI enabled but
> > typical of Windows it doesn't like configuration changes after it's
> > installed.
> >
> >    Is there any other solution for this or is the only Linux support
> > going to require AHCI? It is unfortunately not reasonable or practical
> > to switch BIOS options when choosing which OS to boot.
>
> You only need to use AHCI to boot the install CD. Then you can build a
> kernel with drivers for your SATA controller for the installed system.
>

Thanks Neil. That's very reasonable and I'll give it a try.

Cheers,
Mark
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