http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3199
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Just tried passing ide=nodma at the bootprompt. This gets round the problem, but
surely by now Mandrake should be able to setup installation automatically so
that disks capable of DMA use DMA, but CD uses PIO.
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Trying to install 9.1 RC2 on a Gigabyte GA-8PE667Ultra2/Pro m/board. This uses
the Intel 845PE chipset, with onboard PDC20276 IDE/RAID controller. Having read
of the problems with the PDC20276, I am trying to avoid it in the first
instance, so have hard disk and CD-ROM on the standard IDE channels (1 & 2) and
have disabled the PDC20276 in BIOS.
Install from CD starts OK, but stops after looking for USB devices, with
message: "I can't access a Mandrake Linux Installation Disc in your CD-ROM
drive. Retry?". I cannot find any way to get it to recognise the CD in the drive
(e.g. loading ide-cd module does not help). If I do Alt-F4, I see the following
errors:
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: command error: error=0x50
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 148
ISOFS: unable to read i-node block
I have tried passing noapic, acpi=off, hdc=nodma at the bootprompt, to no avail.
The CD-ROM drive and cable were lifted from another machine where they were
working fine, and I have tried swapping the cable for a brand-new one, just in
case. Only using 40-strand cable for the CD-ROM, but that should be OK as I
don't want UDMA-66+ for CD drive anyway.
I am trying an Intel CPU/mboard setup for the first time to see if it works
better with Mandrake than Athlon/Via, which I had been told might have been
partially responsible for the fact that Mandrake hasn't installed properly on
any machine since 9.0 was in beta. This is the eighth machine I have installed
9.0 or 9.1 betas/RCs/finals onto, and not one has installed without problem. If
it's me or the hardware I go for, then I sure am unlucky. Funny thing is, I
didn't used to be this unlucky before 9.0 :-(
