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After spending an entertaining morning installing ubuntu on my Toshiba netbook, I hit a brick wall when it utterly failed to boot.

Some searching found me this suggestion, which actually seems to work:

hi, try this:
on startup press F2
on bios > avanced > SATA controller Mode change AHCI to Compatibility

and that's it!

Question for folks with more hardware fu than I have: Do I care that I've turned off AHCI mode on a netbook? My choices are AHCI or Compatibility; in Compatibility mode ubuntu boots up ok.

Thanks for any thoughts.

I'm running ubuntu 11.04, 32-bit.

Comments

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

Hi there. I have no answer to your question. Just wondering when you are coming home...

[fin9901.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I can't help you regarding AHCI vs compatibility, but I would like to hear how ubuntu 11.04 works for you. I'm still running 9.something because that's what my Dell netbook came installed with, and since right now it's my only GUI I fear updating it.

I did do a brief bit of googling and ran across someone where their box would only boot under ubuntu if it was set to AHCI and it would only boot under XP if it was set to compatibility. Go figure.

[a-dodecahedron.livejournal.com]

On a netbook you probably don't care. It might make hard disk accesses a little slower, but probably not noticeably so.