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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