Quoting Peder Hedlund <peder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Quoting Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Peder Hedlund <peder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> I got a Lenovo M58 today with an Intel MoBo and the trick there was to >>> disable AHCI in the SATA settings. After that I had no problem booting and >>> installing with my XP-SP3 CD. >> My understanding about going that way was that WRT Windows, once >> non-AHCI, always non-AHCI. Linux was easy. I built support for >> everything into the kernel and can change BIOS anytime. I'll be >> interested in your experiences as you go forward. > > Nah, once you've got XP installed it's usually a matter of installing > the proper SATA/AHCI driver (I think in this case it's called Intel > Matrix Storage Driver), rebooting and resetting BIOS to > Native/AHCI/Whatever. Heh, on the M58 I never got the switch-to-SATA/NATIVE/AHCI-afterwards to work. The storage driver didn't have a prepare driver, like the R400 had, and no matter how I tried I couldn't get it to take any of the tricks on the web: http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=444831 - Peder _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
