boot options
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 10:34.
Hi,
I'm looking for some boot options for the latest 8.10 CD.
Specifically, I'd like to turn off DMA, as I'm getting what look like DMA errors on a failed drive (SATA), and the boot process never finishes.
Thanks!
I will look it up for you.
I will look it up for you.
What I do is use a motherboard which allows me to disable DMA in the BIOS. Another alternative is to use a USB interface (plug the drive in externally).
After a quick search, I found an ide=nodma option, but I doubt that will help you for a sata drive. I'll let you know.
This is happening to me too:
This is happening to me too: the boot process never finishes, just keeps recyling through the same hard drive errors.