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 1Ho6jA-0006cV-Qh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 23:46:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4FNjV7P004310; Tue, 15 May 2007 23:45:31 GMT Received: from linux.asterisk-gentoo.org (74-94-254-5-Nashville.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [74.94.254.5] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4FNf9di031894 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 23:41:10 GMT Received: from [74.94.254.5] (unknown [74.94.254.5]) by linux.asterisk-gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4069AE4F1F for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 18:40:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <464A44F3.2050306@asterisk-gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 18:40:35 -0500 From: Karl Haines User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070514) 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> <464A42A8.80107@ep.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <464A42A8.80107@ep.mine.nu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6a1de0e7-6778-4adb-b30a-5a8466ca0370 X-Archives-Hash: e1d232041c2e9e6f01850f18721d0990 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Walker wrote: > 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 > Actually, updating the BIOS to the newest version is almost ALWAYS a good thing. If the vendor has heard about such problems, they should almost always do something to fix it, and apply such fixes to their next BIOS update. I have fixed many problems (i'm a computer technician) with BIOS updates. Having XP installed makes no difference, except that you can (with some MBs) update from within windows. They ALL, however, support a BIOS update from a bootable DOS floppy. Hope this helps! Karl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGSkTzJEKtOLl2EkMRAv/sAKCgCz5B5DbxHSBy45Z7FsyvZm7wFgCfcp0w UXOvGzTtR8ybjYXV+Erxo9U= =YEYS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list