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. -- Neil Bothwick Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
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