I finally figured out the problem I was having with my laptop not
wanting to boot off the hard drive. Since I've seen this so much
online but rarely answers, I thought I would post this as a sort of
mini-howto on linuxquestions.com (and maybe others), but I wanted to
run it by you guys first.
What I discovered was the following:
1. For most recent PC's you want to use the AHCI driver. AHCI is a
new, open standard for SATA that nearly everyone is following and so
it should be the driver tried first. I was using the NForce driver
since that's what I have as a northbridge, but apparently that just
for older hardware. In any case, it would be nice for the kernel
people to leave a note to that effect in the kernel help.
2. SCSI disk support *MUST* still be turned on with any SATA interface.
Again, why it's not set to do so automatically I don't know.
With these 2 on together, it boots fine. Also, for anyone with a
Wistron
laptop (most Acer and Fujitsu, some others), check out the "acer-wmi"
driver in 2.6.25+. It makes the buttons work and ACPI weirdness go
away.
Thanks for any and all input!
Mike
Off to Saboten-Con! Woohoo! :)
Composed on webmail using Lynx, so any format errors...oh well.
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