Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
> Yes.
>
> You need to have acpi=off on the boot line. This will let your kernel
> (or installer kernel) boot but your SATA drives will appear as old-style
> PATA and be just as slow.
...

For installation I boot these machines with:

pci=nomsi,nommconf hda=noprobe hdc=noprobe

The "hda=noprobe hdc=noprobe" needs to be added
to grub.conf after installation as well.

This cures the slow speed of the disks.

Mogens

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