07-21-2006, 08:40 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: May 2005
Location: Atlanta Georgia USA
Distribution: Redhat (RHEL), CentOS, Fedora, CoreOS, Debian, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, SCO
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Try typing "ide=nodma" at the "boot:" prompt then hitting enter. Issue often is it boots from the CD because the BIOS knows it doesn't use DMA but after the boot Linux does the subsequent reads and doesn't know it isn't DMA. Had to do this recently on installing FC4 on a Dell PE1300.
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