I sent this to the bug where I found the issue mentioned, but that didn't replicate the message to debian-boot. I'm sending here because it's an issue more related to the installer.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello this issue (ide=nodma boot time option does not work) is blocking a possible workaround for a number of other bug reports (all to do with DMA errors mucking up the cdrom-detect and/or cdrom-retriever steps of the installation from netinst). Example bugs: 265636, 258316, 250323, maybe 283016. This issue is still present in i386 RC2 netinst, I tried booting with linux ide=nodma expert ide=nodma linux26 ide=nodma and in all cases the installer failed as in 265636, with dma errors when trying to access the package pool. I also tried giving the "nodma" option to the ide-cd module in when loading it in the "expert" mode. This too was ignored. Could someone on the team briefly explain why ide=nodma is disabled? Is it that turning off dma does not work reliably? If yes, then what do you think the negative effects would be of setting CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=y ? Before resigning from Debian, Herbert Xu was considering turning this on (#250323). Also, it appears that CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y and if so is that a good idea when trying to support older h/w? This close to release, I would not normally bring up changing the kernel config, except that these bugs seem to occur on older Dell hardware fairly often. So there may be a fairly large potential user base affected. Kind regards Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
