Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:49:49 -0600 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH[RFC] Quirk macbook pro 6,2 into ahci mode |
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On 07/18/2010 11:40 PM, Tino Keitel wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 14:34:46 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > > [...] > >> See this is where I'm getting confused, since I'm not entirely sure what >> the boot process is. If I boot a DVD directly, then it's in piix mode. >> Booting through refit -> Linux, it's in piix mode. So my logic was that >> it is probably getting switched into ahci mode by the OSX boot loader or >> perhaps the driver does it there. > > If this helps: I switched from grub-pc to grub-efi on my oldish Mac > mini Core 2 Duo (i945 chipset) and the hard disk used AHCI after this. > Suspend also works fine. So I would guess that the AHCI/PIIX difference > is caused by booting with EFI/legacy DOS bootblock, and the latter is > just done for Windows compatibility.
Great! That sounds way better. DO you have a pointer to grub-efi? I'm finding some grub2 efi stuff with google, just want to make sure that is it. A grub 0.9x with efi would be preferable, I find grub2 to be horrible to work with in general...
-- Jens Axboe
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