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Bug#475223: marked as done (How to disable dma on the netinst CD)

Your message dated Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:49:12 +0000
with message-id <E1Ou7iq-0004gl-8u@ravel.debian.org>
and subject line Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #475223
has caused the Debian Bug report #475223,
regarding How to disable dma on the netinst CD
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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20070308etch2

At least I think that's the correct version. It's the netinst http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso
I am trying to use the debian net installer to install debian etch onto a CF card in an CF-IDE converter.
I used to have an old BSD firewall here - on a 64Mb SanDisk card. The net installer can write to this just fine - but - it is too small.
So - I grabbed Kingston 1Gb card. This is giving me dma_timeout_errors. I believe this to be because the newer CF card supports DMA but not the CF-IDE converter (although I'm not sure). 

Now - this is a firewall. DMA is absolutely not required.

I have disabled DMA in the BIOS, I have set the PIO level to 3.

At boot I have tried the following

expert
expert nodma
expert ide=nodma
expert hda=nodma

In all cases - I get dma timeouts.

In addition - I can no longer mount the CD-ROM.
If I simply pop the card out and put the sandisk back in the timeouts disappear and the CD-ROM mounts just fine - just that I run out of space installing the base package set.
Any hints on what I should be passing to disable DMA totally would be very much appreciated.
If it can't be done at the start but can be done at the busybox prompt before continuing then this would also be very helpful. 



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Chris

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We are closing this bug report against debian-installer 
for one of the following reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the bug report give the feeling that
  the reported problem was lying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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