Fedora Core 3 - upgrade notes

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:09:33AM -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> > 
> > > The nodma flag seems to be a common enough install issue (old BIOS ??) 
> > > that I am slightly of the mind that this flag should be built into the
> > > install CDROM.  I have no way of measuring the impact of this feature
> > > mismatch but those of you that need the flag should not be silent.
> > 
> > No its not a bios issue..
> > 
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-November/msg00455.html
> > 
> > And those who install with 'ide=nodma' should remove this option from
> > grub after install - otherwise all IO will get slow.
> 
> What is the context/ driver difference that permits running with dma
> and the same media in the drive.  i.e. how is it correct to 
> remove the flag after the install when it is apparently needed
> to correctly access the hardware during the install.
> 
> And at what time does the BIOS driver get replaced when installing
> software.  Hmmm... sounds like it is time for me to look at some boot
> process code....

If you look at the thead indicated above - the flag 'ide=nodma' is
required ONLY for the mediacheck - and nothing else. So, after the
mediacheck is done - you could have installed without specifying
'ide=nodma'

Satish