WARTY review

Tommy Trussell tommy.trussell at gmail.com
Sat Nov 6 03:15:34 UTC 2004


On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:25:44 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> It may be that DMA is disabled by default on your hardware with older
> kernels.  You might try disabling it manually in the installer and see if
> that helps.

I put in a different IDE cable, and I turned off DMA in the BIOS and
it failed (different error but same effect) and I tried adding dma=off
to the boot prompt, but I actually have no idea how to turn the dma
off in the installer, that was just a guess. (Now you'll tell me
there's a menu option I missed!?) *update* I just found ide=nodma on
the livecd menus.

When it fails now, it only gets a little way through the installation
-- when it "red screens" now, I switch to VT3 to see a screenfull of
insmod statements followed by
"No matching physical volumes found.
No volume groups found
Reading all physical volumes. This may take awhile...
tar: Invalid tar magic."

I looked in /var/log/messages and it had pretty much the same thing,
but I think it was on another VT I saw a bunch of messages including
ones that said:

user.notice hotplug-misc: Got unsupported event type "vc"

BUT the partition is still there -- I can cd to it and ls files on it.
I just booted the ubuntu LiveCD and fsck says it's OK.

Maybe it does have some soft of hardware problem... but I don't know
for sure how to rule it out. now that I know for sure how to turn off
DMA in the kernel I will try that .... but maybe not tonight......!




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