I have an ASRock Z97 Extreme6 motherboard, with an i7-4790k Devil's Canyon CPU. When I first got the board, I disabled the ASMedia SATA controller in the UEFI to speed up the boot process. The board worked fine in both Windows and several Linux distributions (Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint).
Now, when I enable the ASMedia SATA controller, I am unable to boot the system. This is true whether I put it in AHCI or IDE mode. I can't boot any of the linux distros I have installed, and I can't even run a liveCD. I have not tried booting Windows with the controller enabled, and I no longer have access to the Windows installation that was working with the chip disabled.
I get the same symptoms no matter what distro or install type I use: the motherboard successfully hands off control to the bootloader, which starts the OS, which then hangs before it can finish loading enough to do anything useful.
At least one other user has reported similar problems in this thread on the phoronix.com forums.
Thanks for the help!
Now, when I enable the ASMedia SATA controller, I am unable to boot the system. This is true whether I put it in AHCI or IDE mode. I can't boot any of the linux distros I have installed, and I can't even run a liveCD. I have not tried booting Windows with the controller enabled, and I no longer have access to the Windows installation that was working with the chip disabled.
I get the same symptoms no matter what distro or install type I use: the motherboard successfully hands off control to the bootloader, which starts the OS, which then hangs before it can finish loading enough to do anything useful.
At least one other user has reported similar problems in this thread on the phoronix.com forums.
Thanks for the help!
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