I tried to upgrade to Fedora from RedHat 9 a few weeks ago, but without success. The problem was that the Fedora installation CD booted fine, and I got just to the point where I was prompted to check the CDs. Having done that already, I skipped that step, and then the computer hung, complaining about lost interrupts from hdd. (A sanity check with the RedHat 9 installation CD didn't cause my computer to hang at this step, and a few more tries with the Fedora installation CD didn't help either.) It turned out that once I typed "linux ide=nodma" at the Fedora installation boot prompt, everything went fine. Well, that is, when I got to the graphical installation screen, I decided I'd wait with the installation until I'd solicited response from this list. My concern is that although I seem to have found a work-around to the problem, I wonder what will happen once the installation is complete and my computer boots for the first time. If I had to add "ide=nodma" at the installation, will the computer somehow remember that I had to provide special instructions, making sure that the Linux installation won't hang at boot time for the same reason as the installation hung? I thought maybe I'd have to add "ide=nodma" in the /etc/grub.conf file after the "kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/" entry, but my current RedHat 9 /etc/grub.conf file doesn't contain any such statement. So, my question is: considering that the Fedora installation hangs unless I add "ide=nodma" at the installation prompt, will the computer then boot the Linux OS just off the bat once the installation is complete, or should I take specific further steps during the installation? Thanks, - wolf -
