FC2-test1 intall not working on (my) Dell Latitude C600

[Alain Cochard]

Rick Johnson writes:

 > Alain Cochard wrote:
 > > After some time the following  message appears:
 > > 
 > >      "The fedora Core CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives.
 > >      Please insert the Fedora Core CD and press OK to retry"

 > Try booting with - "linux mediacheck ide=nodma"
 > 
 > It will go slower, but the CD will mount. [...]  It appears that
 > the DMA mode with our CD-ROM drives just doesn't work properly in
 > FC2. The FC1 kernel disables DMA on all CD-ROM drives automagically
 > unless otherwise specified in modules.conf - I believe that
 > includes the installer kernel, so we never noticed the problem.

Yes, that did solve the problem.  Thanks a lot.  I did not notice it
was going slower, though.

AC