On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 16:00, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > On 21.05.2011, at 13:46, Alexey Zaytsev wrote: > >> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 14:26, Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zayt...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>>> Ok, so I just installed the current OpenIndiana development build >>>> (http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/148/oi-dev-148-text-x86.iso) on AHCI and >>>> booted from it. It works just fine for me :). >>>> >>> >>> Confirmed, works after a clean install. I'll see if I can get it into >>> non-working state. >>> >> Ok, I guess I got it. There is some incompatibility between ide and >> ahci drivers. The first oi instance was installed usigned ide, and >> won't work with ahci. The second one was installed on ahci, but won't >> work with ide. This is supposed to work, right? > > I'm not sure what Solaris does here, so I frankly have no idea if this is > supposed to work. IDE and AHCI are different interfaces, so there's a good > chance it simply doesn't work. How about real hardware? Can you take an > openSolaris installation, install it using ICH in IDE mode, switch to AHCI > mode and it works?
I'll check this, but may take some time. From my understanding, it should just work, but I might be wrong.
