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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
