Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> [11-01-21 20:36]: > 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 >
Hi Mark, ...I got some timing problems here, it seems: The answers are comeing faster than the related questions are posted. Are we disturbing the Einstein/Rosen-continuum here and should better stop mailing with lightspeed??? ;) My ASUS board offers: RAID IDE AHCI The help to both kernel options mentioned above is saying (beside other things): "If unsure, say N". That would lead to a unbootable system (at least with my setup...). One point for clarification: Grub has no problem with either settings in the BIOS. Even the kernel boots til the point when it wants to access the root partition. I will try to reboot the system with kernel using AHCI _and_ the BIOS set to AHCI...I will post the result of the stupid experiment in a moment...wait...
