Fedora Core 5 common issues and bugs

[Richard Hally]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 3/28/06, Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>> For the other people, they get a failure that may, depending on things
>> such as which packages they select, appear be a false positive.  But
>> it's also, at least to some degree, correct.  Linux didn't read the disk
>> right.  Sometimes it might read the disk right, but you can bet failure
>> will happen again, too.
> 
> Or to ask it another way... if you use ide=nodma  and mediacheck
> succeeds when before it failed.. does that mean that you should then
> use ide=nodma  when doing the actual install on that system?
> 
> -jef
> 
When I ran into this problem I had already checked the CDs on another 
system(they passed) so I didn't check them again. I needed the ide=nodma 
to get the install to actually read the disk that it had just read to boot.
Richard