* John Magolske listmail@b79.net [20060430 10:15]:
I'm trying to boot grml_small_0.2 from CDROM on a Dell inspiron 3200 laptop. The splash screen comes up, the informational screens F1 - F10 are viewable, but the boot process seems to hang at the point of searching for a cdrom: ...
- Checking for USB. [ ok ]
- Checking for firewire. [ ok ]
- Scanning for USB/Firewire devices. [ ok ]
- Enabling DMA acceleration for: hda [IBM-DTCA-24090]
- Enabling DMA acceleration for: hdc [TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1702BC]
- Looking for CD-ROM in: /dev/hdc
Ok, DMA was enabled at this stage.
At this point the cdrom starts spinning...and the process hangs indefinitely. I also tried the following boot options (individually and together), to no avail:
noapic nolapic pci=noacpi nosmp nodma
Ok.
grml_0.7 also hangs at this same point. The md5sums verify as ok. What other things could I try to get this to boot?
Can you please try to boot with 'grml nodma ide=nodma'? This should disable DMA globally for the IDE subsystem.
regards, -mika-