On Saturday 11 December 2004 12:52, J.L. Coenders wrote: > 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> To provide a little more information to the ones interested. The problem turned out to be that the factory replaced my motherboard with a new one, but with an older chipset, the ALi M1533 Southbridge, which gives problems with the kernel. If you turn off the dma, then the install of fedora and normal use of fedora is fine. When you turn it on, the CD-ROM drive reports error. I complained to the factory, but they wont listen, because they officially do not support Linux. Of course this is nonsense, because they should not replace stuff to lower chipsets. But I guess that's going to be a battle between me and them. For now I am just running Fedora with the DMA support off. Btw, sorry for the topposting during my last post, I forgot.. again. - Jeroen
