Fedora 3 hanging before Anaconda launches

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 11:50 +0200, Jody wrote:
> Ok thanks for the advice. It is a DVD that I got from a magazine and it has 
> a directory with Fedora with many files (1652 in RPMS etc). It hangs right 
> after the lines
> 
> running install
> running /sbin/loader
> 
> where it seems to get utterly stuck.
> 
> I'm not sure how to turn DMA off on this system as there doesn't seem to be 
> such an option in the BIOS, or maybe I just missed it.

Enter "linux ide=nodma" at the boot prompt when using the installer.

Paul.
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