Re: cannot find CD in /dev/hda
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> wrote:
> On 2009/01/14 10:04 (GMT+0100) Klaus Knopper composed:
>> 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
That's odd. You mentioned in your first post that failsafe, which
includes the nodma option, did not work.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> wrote:
> I've used on cmdline various combinations of:
> knoppix hdc=cdrom hdc=noprobe 2 vga=791 vsync=60 failsafe
Ah, I see. You put failsafe as an option. That should have been:
boot: failsafe
or my preference when things really don't work:
boot: failsafe debug -b 1
Glad to hear things are working for you.
Regards,
- Robert
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