AB9 Pro Motherboard SATA/AHCI installation problem
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Sep 28 18:41:08 UTC 2007
> thought this might be because the SATA interface needed to be switched
> to AHCI mode but on doing this the disks are no longer visible at all at
> boot time so the system refuses to even start booting.
AHCI is the best mode but you then need the AHCI drivers to be in the
initrd for booting.
>
> So I have set the SATA disks back to IDE mode, and noticed that my old
> Slackware installation still boots (using the grub loader installed by
> Fedora!). Why does my Slackware still boot when Fedora can't seem to
> see the disks at all?
What does slackware report the disk controller in question as ?
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