Re: cannot find CD in /dev/hda
On 2009/01/14 10:04 (GMT+0100) Klaus Knopper composed:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:35:14PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>> I've used on cmdline various combinations of:
>> knoppix hdc=cdrom hdc=noprobe 2 vga=791 vsync=60 failsafe
>> But always 5.1.1 hangs looking for CD on /dev/hda. Chipset is i440BX
>> (Thinkpad 600E). What's the secret to booting this?
> If it still continues searching after a (possibly very long) time, it
> may be that this ide controller needs a software reset, so please try
> knoppix ide0=reset ide1=reset
> as boot commandline.
Didn't work.
> Another possibility may be that it is not DMA-capable, so
> knoppix nodma
> may help as well.
Yikes! That worked. You would think anything made by IBM in the past decade
using Intel chips would support DMA for IDE. :-p
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