Testing current rawhide...

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Fri Oct 31 18:26:14 UTC 2003


On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:56:41AM -0800, James J. Ramsey wrote:
 >                          
 > - Only enable DMA on hard disks in the BOOT kernel.
 > 
 > However, I still needed to pass ide=nodma to the boot
 > prompt to get Fedora test3 to install, so apparently
 > either that change didn't make it to the test3 kernel,
 > or the attempted change didn't work.

Anaconda in the current tree disables DMA to non-disks during boot up.
This means for those folks who had devices that could handle
DMA fine, they now have to flip to tty2 and hdparm -d1 /dev/whatever 

		Dave





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