On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:56:41AM -0800, James J. Ramsey wrote:
- Only enable DMA on hard disks in the BOOT kernel.
However, I still needed to pass ide=nodma to the boot
prompt to get Fedora test3 to install, so apparently
either that change didn't make it to the test3 kernel,
or the attempted change didn't work.
Anaconda in the current tree disables DMA to non-disks during boot up.
This means for those folks who had devices that could handle
DMA fine, they now have to flip to tty2 and hdparm -d1 /dev/whatever
Dave