Re[2]: Problems booting install cd of both 4.x and 5.1 on SMP PPRO machine!

Hi.

Uhm. I'm not really sure there's any ide in that machine itself.

Linux lspci reports:

Host bridge: Intel 440FX - 82441FX PMC (Natoma) rev 02
Vga : CL GD 5436 Alpine
PCI Bridge: IBM IBM27-82351 (rev 01)
SCSI Storage: AIC-7880U
AMD 79c970 ethernet adapter..

No ide active atleast.


On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 14:15:53 -0700 (PDT) - Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org> wrote:

> had a similar problem in a system.  It turns out the IDE (!) driver
> was at fault.. I had to add a loader variable to disbale DMA on the IDE
> drive (I think the IDE stuff came just after teh SCSI stuff so the last
> thing I saw was the SCSI delay).
> 4.0 worked fine..


Mvh/Best regards,

Arnvid L. Karstad