Fedore Core 4 Test 2 - Damaged ISOs?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Mon Apr 25 08:07:15 UTC 2005


On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:46:50AM -0500, Senthil_OR at Dell.com wrote:
> Is this a Mediacheck issue OR the famous 'linux ide=nodma ' problem?
> Anton while booting up for install give the above linux ide=nodma
> command and then check. 
> If you find the media check running okay, then report your CD-Drive make
> to blacklist maintained by RH.

Don't bother. The mediacheck bugs are nothing to do with DMA and everything
to do with the base kernel IDE code. In particular check FC3 - if FC3 worked
then file an FC specific bug, if neither did then file a bug and mention that
both show the problem, also include the drive details.




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