Re: boot delay/DMA timeout

["admin kclinux net" <admin kclinux net>]

James Wilkinson just answered this in the Dell 3200 laptop thread so I 
cant take credit.

At the boot prompt, try
linux hdc=nodma
or
linux nodma



Jay wrote:

> New FC2 install. Several minutes delay at start of boot process. DMA
> timeout for hdb, the linux drive on system. hparm says dma=0. Can I turn
> off this process? 
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> Thanks,
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> Jay
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