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Re: installer DMA issue



On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 06:19, Michal Filka <michal.filka@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a problem when installing Debian Lenny on a Motorola blade.
> This particular blade has a hardware issue. It incorrectly reports DMA
> support for CF slot. I tried to boot the installer in Expert mode with
> ide-core.nodma=... but without any effect. cat /proc/ide/hdc/settings
> still reports DMA usage for the CF slot. Disabling DMA over
> /proc/.../hdc didn't help either. Is there any other way how to
> disable DMA and force PIO in Debian installer or I have to build a
> kernel for the installer without DMA support?

As we are close to release Squeeze, it would be a good time to test
the Beta2 of installer on this machine and see if it has those
problems too.

Could you do that?

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