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I've tried to setup a box to my friend, but it
would stop reading from the CD-ROM  as soon
as it got to "second stage install" on mandrake.
Debian -which he tried earlier - also crashed,
and so did a "cool linux CD a CD boot russian
distribution.

However, the drive does work fine under windos,
and under initial setup (it even booted anda
lowed me to log on the Cool Linux CD).

So I suppose that passing some limiting
parameters on IDE usage to the kernel will
make it work.

Just have no idea of what these parameters and
their sintax would be.

Thanx.

        JS
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Quote:> I've tried to setup a box to my friend, but it
> would stop reading from the CD-ROM  as soon
> as it got to "second stage install" on mandrake.
> Debian -which he tried earlier - also crashed,
> and so did a "cool linux CD a CD boot russian
> distribution.

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 Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer,  #    Black holes result
 skydiver, and author: "Inside Linux",     #   when God divides the  
 "C++ HowTo", "C++ Unleashed"              #     universe by zero

What I'd likec to know is whether I can use
paramenters like
ide=nodma ,and the like. Since the machine works
fine to this point, I think that there is some
optimisation that must be turned off.

Thank you for your answer.

Quote:>I've tried to setup a box to my friend, but it
>would stop reading from the CD-ROM  as soon
>as it got to "second stage install" on mandrake.
>Debian -which he tried earlier - also crashed,
>and so did a "cool linux CD a CD boot russian
>distribution.
>However, the drive does work fine under windos,
>and under initial setup (it even booted anda
>lowed me to log on the Cool Linux CD).
>So I suppose that passing some limiting
>parameters on IDE usage to the kernel will
>make it work.

Or try RedHat CD.

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Timothy Murphy  

tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Quote:> What I'd likec to know is whether I can use
> paramenters like
> ide=nodma ,and the like.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer,  #    Black holes result
 skydiver, and author: "Inside Linux",     #   when God divides the  
 "C++ HowTo", "C++ Unleashed"              #     universe by zero