From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Ho6Z3-0002Tc-Tz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 23:36:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4FNZ4mq030101; Tue, 15 May 2007 23:35:04 GMT Received: from pandora.ep.mine.nu (82-47-4-228.cable.ubr03.telf.blueyonder.co.uk [82.47.4.228]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4FNUoB7025393 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 23:30:50 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pandora.ep.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F62140C0016 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 00:30:49 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ep.mine.nu Received: from pandora.ep.mine.nu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pandora.ep.mine.nu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dNLzhyNKK25f for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 00:30:48 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.107] (poseidon [192.168.1.107]) (Authenticated sender: neil) by pandora.ep.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45273140BFFE4 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 00:30:48 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <464A42A8.80107@ep.mine.nu> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:30:48 +0100 From: Neil Walker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8. References: <46444041.1040404@ergolight-sw.com> <87mz084d5d.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <46480D8F.1040307@ep.mine.nu> <200705151937.56063.mereandor@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200705151937.56063.mereandor@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: af0db6a8-bcf2-492d-afe0-dc14eea776f9 X-Archives-Hash: 2b5c4c73d920730870f4a2f43fd19a7b Roman Zimmermann wrote: > I have a similar controller to yours and did some research recently. It seems > that (allmost) all ICH7 controllers do support AHCI [1]. But I cannot > activate AHCI anywhere in the BIOS. It seems this is due to some limitations > of the BIOS. > There was also a thread on another mailing list where it was suggested to > update the BIOS. I'm currently pondering to do so but I'm not sure about how > safe it is without having a winxp installation... Besides I'm not sure > whether it would help. > > [1] http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imst/sb/CS-012304.htm > I checked the FAQ on the Asus website and that states that my motherboard doesn't support AHCI. :( Be lucky, Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list