Hi Justin,

Are you able to bring just your desktop to our Linux Beginners Workshop
this coming Sat 20 June? The address is: VPAC 110 Victoria St, Carlton
South VIC 3053. Quite a number of us will be there, and can have a closer
look at your SSD and troubleshooting.

Would like to help.

Wen
 On Jun 14, 2015 11:10 PM, "Justin Fisher" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Wen,
>
> I'm still no further along with this install. I have tried again today
> with the KXstudio live disc, and for whatever reason the ssd is now no
> longer being recognized from the live disc and from Win7. The instructions
> listed in the links you sent I had pretty much already followed as I had
> used this guide
> http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/07/23/dual-boot-ubuntu-12-04-and-windows-7-on-a-computer-with-2-hard-drives/2/
> . I checked my bios and made sure i selected ahci where it was applicable
> but this did not fix anything. I have to say i am out of ideas (and
> motivation) here and will need some help if you are able to spare some
> time. Many thanks.
>
> Justin
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Trent W. Buck <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Wen Lin wrote:
>> > One key point: *BIOS and UEFI: set it to AHCI*
>>
>> Unless you're dual-booting, *always* set your SATA controllers to AHCI.
>> The options "legacy", "hybrid" and "PATA" are worse choices for Linux.
>>
>> Erratum: current hardware seems to add NVMe, which appears to be better?
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVMe_vs_AHCI
>>
>> > using the parameter 'noatime'.
>>
>> The default should be relatime (check /proc/mounts),
>> which should be near enough.
>>
>> Changing it to noatime will break a handful of programs,
>> but you probably don't use them anyway.
>>
>
>
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