Re: Testing current rawhide...

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 13:26, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:56:41AM -0800, James J. Ramsey wrote:
>  >                          
>  > - Only enable DMA on hard disks in the BOOT kernel.
>  > 
>  > However, I still needed to pass ide=nodma to the boot
>  > prompt to get Fedora test3 to install, so apparently
>  > either that change didn't make it to the test3 kernel,
>  > or the attempted change didn't work.
> 
> Anaconda in the current tree disables DMA to non-disks during boot up.
> This means for those folks who had devices that could handle
> DMA fine, they now have to flip to tty2 and hdparm -d1 /dev/whatever 

You can actually just boot with 'linux allowcddma' and it won't toggle
off DMA for CD drives.  

Jeremy