dual boot advice

[Tony Alfrey]

wtw at fuse.net wrote:
> ---- Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote: 
>> Hello;
>>
>> I need to upgrade my dual-boot box with SuSE and XP (i.e. I need a new 
>> motherboard).
>>
>> Currently I have an IDE port for the Windows drive and a SATA controller 
>> for the linux drives, but most new motherboards have only SATA ports.
>>
>> There is considerable confusion on the web about installing XP on SATA 
>> drives, some talk about needing a floppy w/ the SATA driver, some talk 
>> about disabling AHCI in BIOS before loading XP.
>>
>> Is there anyone out there that actually knows how to do this properly?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> 
> Not sure about in a dual booting situation, but I've always just disable the AHCI or set it to Legacy mode in the BIOS and have been able to boot XP fine.  YMMV.
> 


Thanks.  I've heard that twice now.
Good.



> --Tom
> 


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