[Fedora] Re: Did I make a mistake in starting with Fedora Core 4?

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Mon Jul 18 18:20:02 UTC 2005


Dave Gutteridge wrote:

> Also, I've noticed an error message during the boot process that 
> occurs if I leave the DVD in the drive while booting Fedora:
> mknod: failed to create /dev/console:17
> mknod: failed to create /dev/null:17
> mknod: failed to create /dev/zero:17
> hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
> hdc: drive not ready for command

    This is probably a dumb question, but have you tried booting with 
ide=nodma ?

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