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

On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 15:22, GORDON A GALLUP wrote:
> 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
Second stage aborted sounds like a cd media error.  Check for scratches
etc.  Cheaper CDroms have trouble with cd-media errors.

The DMA timeout from RedHat can be fixxed with the ide=nodma flag at the
boot prompt at install time.
-- 
Carl Lundstedt <clundst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
University of Nebraska


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