On Jan 7, 2008 12:15 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
