lock up on install - Dell laptop as well (fixed)

[Rick Johnson]

Rick Johnson wrote:
> BC wrote:
> 
>> I tried to install but it locks up at the fedora splash screen. Error 
>> I get are:
>>
>> I have an Abit motherboard with via chipset SATA Hard drive.
>>
>> 1) HDE lost interuppt on boot 10 mesages --- SATA drive
>>
>> It finally boots and goes to splash screen then locks up
>>
> 
> Not to be me too, but I'm getting the same error booting from an 
> IDE-CDROM within a Dell Lattitude CPx laptop.
> 
> <6>ice-cd: cmd 0x28 timed out
> <4>hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
> <4>hdc: lost interrupt
> 
> The media md5sum's just fine, so it's not a bad disc.
> 
> -Rick

passing ide=nodma at the boot loader seems to have solved that problem.

-Rick

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