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Lokuststar
June 19th, 2010, 02:25 AM
Okay, pci=nomsi has been seriously messing up my enjoyable linux usage for a few years now. Its really ******* me off. I have ubuntu installed on an old 80 gig ide drive i bought in 2003 because I cant get ubuntu to recognize my sata drives. I know, pci=nomsi makes ubuntu recognize my sata drives. But I want to install ubuntu onto my fast sata drive. So after booting from the live cd with pci=nomsi added to the commands, everything installs. Except.... upon restart it doesn't recognize my sata drives again. Now it just goes to busybox. Where am I supposed to add pci=nomsi in the installation so that on restart it will recognize my sata drives. Because if I don't add it anywhere, its totally useless because ubuntu doesn't know where to boot from, cuz my sata drive is a ghost!

sinurge
July 31st, 2010, 11:41 AM
Okay, pci=nomsi has been seriously messing up my enjoyable linux usage for a few years now. Its really ******* me off. I have ubuntu installed on an old 80 gig ide drive i bought in 2003 because I cant get ubuntu to recognize my sata drives. I know, pci=nomsi makes ubuntu recognize my sata drives. But I want to install ubuntu onto my fast sata drive. So after booting from the live cd with pci=nomsi added to the commands, everything installs. Except.... upon restart it doesn't recognize my sata drives again. Now it just goes to busybox. Where am I supposed to add pci=nomsi in the installation so that on restart it will recognize my sata drives. Because if I don't add it anywhere, its totally useless because ubuntu doesn't know where to boot from, cuz my sata drive is a ghost!
Which ubuntu installation do yuou have