On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: <SNIP> >> >> I'm happy to be corrected (by Volker I'm sure) but that's my guess >> as to what you're seeing. > > you are confusing bios calls and bios programming chips as.... also - is there > any good reason to use IDE mode? Any? At all?
I don't believe I'm 'confusing bios calls with bios programming'. The BIOS can do whatever it wants to in programming the chips as long as grub can still find the kernel. After grub finds the kernel the kernel is free to override whatever chip programming the BIOS has done and reprogram the chips as it sees best. I think the issue meino possibly has is that he likely didn't include an Int13 type driver in the kernel or most likely his system would have booted like it did in the _very_ old days. I agree that there isn't any good reason I know of to use IDE mode unless the other modes the BIOS provides don't work. I cannot get into my Asus BIOS at the moment, but as I remember it Asus gave me something like IDE AHCI AHCI + compatibility IIRC I had to use the last one to get mine to boot but I may be wrong about that. I only mention this as meino is also using Asus so he might look for similar options. - Mark
