Through my difficult time trying to get started with FC2, I found that I needed to use the ide=nodma boot parameter to get things to work. Failure to do so resulted in a system hang while loading the appropriate disk/io drivers during boot/install. My question to the group is.. Is this caused by a misconfiguration of the IDE environment or other HW problem? Or is this just something that happens? Does use of this parameter cause/create any other issues (disable functionality, increase risk, compatibility?) Computer is ASUS p4pe with 2.4Ghz, 512M IDE Setup IDE 1 MASTER West Dig - 160 G (2 - 80 G partitions) for Windows C & D drives SLAVE Maxtor 40G for Fedora IDE2 Master HP 9300i CDWRITER Slave Generic 50x CDRom Some thoughts included improper jumper settings (Master, slave, Cable Select) or improper devices as Master slave, or a hw compatibility issue (like with the generic 50x cdrom not supporting the correct spec)... Though I had no problem with Redhat 9 nor with windows... Thanks. John Best jbest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
