how to unsubscribe!!

Ben Halicki ben.halicki at macquarietextiles.com.au
Wed Mar 10 05:26:21 UTC 2004


Hi all,

how do i unsubscribe from this list?!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wes Shull" <wes at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>
To: <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: need help


> "Gene C." <czar at czarc.net> wrote:
> 
> > come up with the answer ... pci=off nodma
> [...]
> > I do not understand why Red Hat and Fedora systems need this and the 
> other 
> > distributions do not -- Mandrake 9.2, Gentoo 1.4, SuSE 9.0, SuSE 
> LivEval 
> > (bootable cdrom), knoppix (Debian based bootable cdrom).
> > 
> > There is scant information in the kernel Documentation so I am not 
> exactly 
> > sure just what these boot parameters do.
> 
> Resources for kernel bootparams:
> * man 7 bootparam (ancient, says 2.1.21 at the bottom!)
> * kernel-parameters.txt in the kernel-doc package (I think that's what 
> you're talking about above?)
> * http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html
> 
> None of those explain the bare "nodma" but I seem to remember this 
> coming up a lot around the time that FC2T1 was released (I'd search 
> the archives IF THE FREAKING SEARCH WORKED)...  IIRC it disables use 
> of DMA for (at least) ATAPI CD-ROM drives, some of which freak out or 
> return corrupt data when using DMA.  Apparently nodma was the default 
> in FC1 and earlier installers, and other distros...  forgot if it was 
> accidental or intentional that FC2T1 wasn't the same.
> 
> I'm sure that if anything I said above was incorrect someone will jump 
> in and set things straight ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Redhat-types, why isn't the archive search working?  If you guys don't 
> have time to fix it, I'm sure someone here can do it for you...
> 
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