Thanks Nikos, I had a look in the bios, couldn't find AHCI (it's HP Compaq BIOS, not very complete) but changed the translation mode from Automatic to LBA assisted and now it works. Out of curiosity, I reverted the BIOS to defaults (Automatic translation mode) and it still works. So basically I don't know what happened but tinkering in the BIOS fixed the issue that I can't reproduce. Not that I want to reproduce it but I don't like when I can't understand what was going on.
So thank you very much for your help, I spent quite a lot of time on that already and I can finally go further :-) David On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> [...] Try enabling "AHCI" in the BIOS (search for it in the SATA/IDE >> settings) and enable "<*> AHCI SATA support" in the kernel. >> > > Another note: Make sure you *first* build a kernel with AHCI support and > *then* change the option in the BIOS or else Linux won't boot either :) > > >
