[ALUG] Re: Ubuntu 6.10 server beta works!

[(Ted Harding)]

On 04-Oct-06 cl at isbd.net wrote:
> 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.

Just a comment (perhaps for future reference). I've found the
Ubuntu Live CD very useful when there are "kit problems", since
the CD has a good spectrum of driver modules from which it can
select, according to what it detects while booting.

Best wishes,
Ted.

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Date: 04-Oct-06                                       Time: 13:02:58
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