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donkus
March 7th, 2019, 07:22 AM
Hello,

I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS on my PC. When I select "Try Ubuntu without installing" or "Install Ubuntu" in the boot menu, I get a black screen with the following messages

[5.631799] bcma: Unsupported SPROM revision: 11
[5.631839] bcma: bus0: No SPROM available
[37.979242] ahci 0000:03:00.0: AHCI controller unavailable!

PC specs are:
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme4
CPU: Intel i5-4670K 3.40 GHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 770 2 GB
Boot drive: Samsung 860 evo 500 GB SSD
Installing Ubuntu off of a burned DVD if that matters

I tried toggling boot options like acpi=off, nolapic, and nomodeset with no luck. Is there anything else I should try?

donkus
March 8th, 2019, 04:13 AM
Update: I disabled my GPU and wireless adapter. Now, when I try to install, I get a black screen for about a minute then the following message is displayed

[37.979242] ahci 0000:03:00.0: AHCI controller unavailable!

CatKiller
March 8th, 2019, 05:28 AM
You need your hard drive to not be set to RAID in your BIOS. You'll need to install a thing in Windows before you do that, otherwise Windows won't work, apparently. While you're in Windows installing the thing, you'll also want to turn off Fast Boot.

donkus
March 8th, 2019, 07:16 AM
Thanks for the reply! My hard drive is set to AHCI by default, and fast boot is off :/
Might have to resort to using a VM for the time being