[Grml] Boot hangs at "Looking for CD-ROM"
Michael Prokop
mika at grml.org
Sun Apr 30 11:44:05 CEST 2006
* John Magolske <listmail at 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-
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