On 10 Sep 2001 19:06:32 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On 11 Sep 2001 11:53:35 +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> >
> > Does booting with "ide=nodma" help?
>
> Ah, right. That solves the problem. Thanks a lot.
A quick follow-up:
ide=nodma solves the problem for the installer. But, after the install,
when the system comes up for the first time, it's the same problem: it's
frozen when it tries to mount large partitions.
I can add to the kickstart file, to the lilo option, the "--append
ide=nodma" string, and it appears to solve the problem. But, still, if i
want a high performance from that system (and believe me, i do want
that, since it's gonna be a busy mail gateway), not using DMA will hurt
performance.
Somehow, i believe this problem is specific to the kernel version from
1.0.1, since 1.0 doesn't exhibit the same problem. I'm not sure of that,
but i believe the vanilla Red Hat 7.1 doesn't show this problem.
So, maybe a kernel upgrade will make it dissapear? I'll try and see what
i can do.
--
Florin Andrei
"Our kernel does have source control: its name is
Linus Torvalds, CVS with a brain." - Nicholas Knight
|