How to turn off DMA turing install

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sat Dec 11 10:47:24 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 11:38 +0100, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> Hi,
> My laptop has been fixed by the factory and they replaced the motherboard. Now 
> Fedora or any old Redhat will not install anymore (error 2 cpio no magic) I 
> have a clue that the source of my problems is DMA of the cd-rom and I want to 
> try turning it off during the install. 
> What arguments should I pass on the command-line to turn it off?
> 
> I have searched google, the archives and everything else I could think off, 
> but that did not do the trick.

ide=nodma

Paul.
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