> thought this might be because the SATA interface needed to be switched > to AHCI mode but on doing this the disks are no longer visible at all at > boot time so the system refuses to even start booting. AHCI is the best mode but you then need the AHCI drivers to be in the initrd for booting. > > So I have set the SATA disks back to IDE mode, and noticed that my old > Slackware installation still boots (using the grub loader installed by > Fedora!). Why does my Slackware still boot when Fedora can't seem to > see the disks at all? What does slackware report the disk controller in question as ?
