Re: [Grml] Boot hangs at "Looking for CD-ROM"

* John Magolske listmail@b79.net [20060430 19:15]:

• Michael Prokop mika@grml.org :

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Can you please try to boot with 'grml nodma ide=nodma'? This should disable DMA globally for the IDE subsystem.

Yes! this solves the problem.

Fine :)

I'd tried 'grml nodma' earlier, the additional 'ide=nodma' does the trick. Thanks for the solution -- and the great distro, just what I've been looking for.

JFTR: 'nodma' is for userspace only, grml won't enable DMA then on its own. 'ide=nodma' on the other side is a kernel parameter telling the kernel not to enable DMA on the IDE-bus.

I'll improve documentation so it is easier to find.

regards, -mika-