Bug#320372: Installation problem
Hi,
The DMA fix below worked. Thank you very much.
After receiving Lennart's e-mail, I poked around in the BIOS and found that
although the CD drive (which is a common ATAPI IDE drive) is a master, the
hard disk on its own IDE port was set to be a slave with no master on the
bus. However, fixing this didn't make the Debian installer recognize the
CD.
Thanks!
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Frans Pop [mailto:aragorn@tiscali.nl]
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:52 PM
To: 320372@bugs.debian.org; Bill Dugan
Subject: Re: Bug#320372: Installation problem
On Thursday 28 July 2005 23:48, Frans Pop wrote:
> My guess is that you have a SATA disk controller. If so, please see the
> 4th item in the Errata for the installer [1].
Oops, my guess was completely wrong as Lennarts answer shows :-P
The most likely problem in that case is that your CD drive does not like
the default DMA setting in the kernel.
You can try if that's the case by switching to VT2 (use alt-F2) after the
error and give the following commands:
# cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdc/settings
(check that the current value for using_dma is "1")
# echo "using_dma:0" >/proc/ide/ide1/hdc/settings
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