[arch-general] legacy ATA -> AHCI switch after installation

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On 07/15/2010 09:14 AM, Roberto Malinverni wrote:
> 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.
>
> Roberto
>
>

i don't think that you'll have problems. i did that multiple times, but 
if you do, is a matter of regenerating initrd images using the livecd

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