Thanks, it solved the problem. Now I need to complain at the factory that they change the DMA chipset, because Fedora worked before it went back to the factory. - Jeroen On Saturday 11 December 2004 11:47, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 11:38 +0100, J.L. Coenders wrote: > > Hi, > > My laptop has been fixed by the factory and they replaced the > > motherboard. Now Fedora or any old Redhat will not install anymore (error > > 2 cpio no magic) I have a clue that the source of my problems is DMA of > > the cd-rom and I want to try turning it off during the install. > > What arguments should I pass on the command-line to turn it off? > > > > I have searched google, the archives and everything else I could think > > off, but that did not do the trick. > > ide=nodma > > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>