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Documentation: Clarify that AHCI is supported but may suffer from bugs

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We do support AHCI now, but the implementation could be incomplete for
some chipsets.
Also, we should write the acronym "Non-volatile Memory Express" as
NVMe. not NVME.
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## Hardware support and requirements
Storage-wise Serenity requires a >= 2 GB parallel ATA or SATA IDE disk. Some older SATA chipsets already operate in IDE mode whilst some newer ones will depend upon adjusting a BIOS option to run your SATA controller in IDE (sometimes referred to as Legacy or PATA) mode. SATA AHCI, SCSI, SAS, eMMC and NVME are all presently unsupported.
Storage-wise Serenity requires a >= 2 GB parallel ATA or SATA IDE disk. Some older SATA chipsets already operate in IDE mode whilst some newer ones will depend upon adjusting a BIOS option to run your SATA controller in IDE (sometimes referred to as Legacy or PATA) mode. SATA AHCI is supported, but may not work on every controller due to bugs in the implementation.
SCSI, SAS, eMMC and NVMe HBAs are all presently unsupported.
You must be willing to wipe your disk's contents to allow for writing the Serenity image so be sure to back up any important data on your disk first! Serenity uses the GRUB2 bootloader so it should be possible to multiboot it with any other OS that can be booted from GRUB2 post-installation.