* John Magolske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060430 10:15]: > I'm trying to boot grml_small_0.2 from CDROM on a Dell inspiron 3200 laptop. > The splash screen comes up, the informational screens F1 - F10 are viewable, > but the boot process seems to hang at the point of searching for a cdrom: > ... > * Checking for USB. [ ok ] > * Checking for firewire. [ ok ] > * Scanning for USB/Firewire devices. [ ok ] > * Enabling DMA acceleration for: hda [IBM-DTCA-24090] > * Enabling DMA acceleration for: hdc [TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1702BC] > * Looking for CD-ROM in: /dev/hdc
Ok, DMA was enabled at this stage. > At this point the cdrom starts spinning...and the process hangs indefinitely. > I also tried the following boot options (individually and together), to no > avail: > noapic nolapic pci=noacpi nosmp nodma Ok. > grml_0.7 also hangs at this same point. The md5sums verify as ok. > What other things could I try to get this to boot? Can you please try to boot with 'grml nodma ide=nodma'? This should disable DMA globally for the IDE subsystem. regards, -mika- -- You like grml? Help us! http://grml.org/donations/ Already on the grml-user-map? http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers Grml Solutions http://solutions.grml.org/
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