Am 15.07.2010 08:14, schrieb Roberto Malinverni: > My mainbord is dying, so I plan to replace it during this weekend. > Originally the installation of the OS (Arch of course) was performed with my > sata HD in "legacy ATA mode" set in the BIOS. I'm thinking this time to use > native AHCI mode for the hard disks - no real need, I'm just curious. > Apart from the other issues related to a "motherboard transplant" I'm > already familiar with, do you think that changing the hard drive mode will > give me particular troubles? IIRC, the ahci kernel module is normally loaded > alongside the others "ata/pata related", so maybe a simple rebuild of the > ramdisk is all that I need. On the first boot, you'll need to boot with the fallback initramfs. You can then regenerate the initramfs ('mkinitcpio -p kernel26') to account for the drivers changes. If you have more than one drive, you should also use labels or UUIDs to identify your file systems in the bootloader and fstab.
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