WARTY review

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sat Nov 6 03:23:57 UTC 2004


On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:15:34PM -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote:

> 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.

That option is only valid for the live CD.

To disable DMA in the installer, proceed up to the point where the
partitioner starts up, switch to a text console and execute:

echo "using_dma:0" > /proc/ide/hda/settings

(replacing hda with whichever disk you will be installing to, if you have
more than one)

-- 
 - mdz




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