Hi! Ive been using stable for a while now so i thought ill give the nsarge install CD's a go. I downloaded the Sarge netinstall beta CD's, and everything went fine. Except
In my box there's a little problem which i have to face everytime i face a new distro. I have 3 IDE Disks. 2 of them are all OK, but one of them has 1 pin missing, the one that is above the "hole". This has happend because of me connecting the cable upside down one time, the type of cable doesnt have that hole in the middle, instead it's just flat. That resulted in breaking the pin of course. Now, it doesn't really concern the work of the disk, just that you have to disable UDMA, because according to my book, that's what this pin is assigned to (it has some revelnce to it in other words). Windoze usually sees a problm with UDMA, and turns it off for the disks, and all goes well. In Linux usually appending the ide=nodma switch also works. Hoever, in the sarge netinstall procedure the modules are loaded after the kernel loads, so that rules out passing that variable on boot-time. It should be noted that if i don't tell Linux SPECIFICALLY NOT to use UDMA, the boot process will hang in the "detecting partitions" part, and will standstill. (RedHat9 here is an exception. On thier Boot-CD's their kernel will wait for a while, display a timeout error, then continue, and the disk IS THERE.) So, i suggest doing something for ppl to disable the UDMA switch. Or maybe there IS a way to pass that variable to the kernel, that i don't know of. Any thoughts? Movi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
