On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:09:33AM -0600, Satish Balay wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > > > > > The nodma flag seems to be a common enough install issue (old BIOS ??) > > > that I am slightly of the mind that this flag should be built into the > > > install CDROM. I have no way of measuring the impact of this feature > > > mismatch but those of you that need the flag should not be silent. > > > > No its not a bios issue.. > > > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-November/msg00455.html > > > > And those who install with 'ide=nodma' should remove this option from > > grub after install - otherwise all IO will get slow. > > What is the context/ driver difference that permits running with dma > and the same media in the drive. i.e. how is it correct to > remove the flag after the install when it is apparently needed > to correctly access the hardware during the install. > > And at what time does the BIOS driver get replaced when installing > software. Hmmm... sounds like it is time for me to look at some boot > process code.... If you look at the thead indicated above - the flag 'ide=nodma' is required ONLY for the mediacheck - and nothing else. So, after the mediacheck is done - you could have installed without specifying 'ide=nodma' Satish
