Re: Disable DMA.

2012-02-12 Thread Peter Ankerstål
On Feb 11, 2012, at 9:34 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 02/11/12 20:15, Peter Ankerstål wrote: In FreeBSD 8 i used the loader-variable hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to get my computer boot on a CF card. But in FreeBSD 9.0 it doesn't seem to work. Could it be another variable or is it something else

Re: Disable DMA.

2012-02-12 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 10:29 +0100, Peter Ankerstål wrote: On Feb 11, 2012, at 9:34 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 02/11/12 20:15, Peter Ankerstål wrote: In FreeBSD 8 i used the loader-variable hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to get my computer boot on a CF card. But in FreeBSD 9.0 it doesn't seem to

Disable DMA.

2012-02-11 Thread Peter Ankerstål
Hi, In FreeBSD 8 i used the loader-variable hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to get my computer boot on a CF card. But in FreeBSD 9.0 it doesn't seem to work. Could it be another variable or is it something else that doesn't work in 9? The machine boots up the installer when the CF-card is not present but

Re: Disable DMA.

2012-02-11 Thread Alexander Motin
On 02/11/12 20:15, Peter Ankerstål wrote: In FreeBSD 8 i used the loader-variable hw.ata.ata_dma=0 to get my computer boot on a CF card. But in FreeBSD 9.0 it doesn't seem to work. Could it be another variable or is it something else that doesn't work in 9? The machine boots up the installer

Re: Disable DMA without loader.conf or sysctl.conf.

2008-04-16 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:37:05PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: Remembering that Cromwell won't support loader That is not correct - recent versions of the sysutils/cromwell port support passing kernel environment parameters. As for your /boot/xboxlinux.cfg, use: title FreeBSD/xbox kernel

Disable DMA without loader.conf or sysctl.conf.

2008-04-15 Thread Chris Rees
Hey guys; I'm back to using FreeBSD, after my major hardware upgrade seriously broke everything (teach me to optimise...) I've stuck it on my xbox for now, and it runs like a charm, of course, except it complains then dies on boot about the HDD having problems with DMA. It's only using a