[huskerlug] Re: New Hardware--DMA problem?

Try booting with `ide=nodma` as one of you kernel parameters.
i.e.
`linux text ide=nodma` in RH7.x,8.0

-Cesar Delgado
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> From: huskerlug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:huskerlug-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of GORDON A GALLUP
> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 3:23 PM
> To: Husker-LUG
> Subject: [huskerlug] New Hardware--DMA problem?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>    I have just got a new (Tiger Direct) computer, with an Athlon +2200
> processor and most everything integrated on the board.  No OS was
> installed. I had some older distros around and rather to my surprise
RH
> 7.2 and Mandrake 8 both failed on installation.  Mandrake merely said
> "Second stage aborted" with no explanation.  RH, however, gave what
may be
> an error message and then hung. I let it go all night--just in case.
The
> message at the end:
> 
> Partition check:
> hda: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
> 
> and then it _sat_ with hard disk access light on steadily.  Incidently
I
> had already put partitions hda1, hda2, and hda3 on the disk with
> Slackware's fdisk.
> 
> Interestingly enough, an even older Slackware 8 distro installed with
only
> one minor hitch involving LILO.  Of course, X-windows doesn't work yet
> with Slack since that's the hard part.
> 
> Anyone have any clues?
> 
> Since our experience with Tiger Direct is that ocassionally their
stuff
> needs to be returned because it just doesn't work--there is likely a
> non-zero probability that there is a hardware problem in spite of the
> Slackware success.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> G. A. Gallup
> Physics and Astronomy
> 
> 
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