[ALUG] Re: Ubuntu 6.10 server beta works!

[cl at isbd.net]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:36:44PM +0100, Chris Glover wrote:
> >
> >A couple of questions:-
> >
> >   Is there any peformance penalty using the AHCI BIOS?
> >
> 
> AHCI is a VERY well published standard by INtel, and from what I've read, 
> AHCI is the preferred mode if you're rtunning in native SATA mode.
> 
> I've beren running a MythTV box with software raid 1 using AHCI mode with 
> no problems at all for the past year.
> 
OK, thanks, so that's a non-issue at least.

I *think* the Ubuntu Desktop version not booting may be because it
needs some disk space to unpack the CD contents and I was trying it
before I switched on AHCI mode.  The Ubuntu Server version doesn't
have the CD contents compressed into an archive format so it got a bit
further and then told me it couldn't access the hard disk which made
it clear what was wrong.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)