Install if freeze when loading AHCI

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How To: Install With AHCI if your installation freezes at "loading Ahci"

Author: G0NZ0

About AHIC: The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a hardware mechanism that allows software to communicate with Serial ATA (SATA) devices such as host bus adapters which are designed to offer features not offered by Parallel ATA (PATA) controllers besides higher speeds, such as hot-plugging and native command queuing.

If you try a Linux installation on a system with AHCI you may be stuck at the beginning of the installation, with a message that says "loading Ahci". If this is the case, simply add the boot parameter

pci=nomsi

There are other proposed solutions around, as far as I have seen this is the only parameter that worked on the system I had the chance to try.

Credits:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface
• thanks to my friend Eric that let me try on his computer (in spite of the high risk of screwing up it all! :P), which allowed me to find out about this trick :D