bb002 Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 I have a old laptop. For the longest time I could not get the cdrom drive to read burned cds. However I recently discovered that it would indeed read them if i disabled DMA first. Now I'm trying to disable DMA when I boot the Mandriva 2005LE cds, but it doesn't seem to be working and it freezes when trying to access cdrom. I also have a Gentoo Install CD, I disable DMA with "gentoo-nofb ide=nodma" at the boot prompt. i apply the nofb since the max res of my laptop is lower than what gentoo uses but the "ide-nodma" doesn't seem to work for mandriva's install cds. Is this right or is there another parameter i need to enter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 ide=nodma should work Are you sure you didn't type ide-nodma as you did in the above post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bb002 Posted September 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 haha. No I don't think so. lol. I typed the equal sign the first time but not the second. Give me a minute to make sure. I'm assuming that if I did type it wrong I wouldn't have gotten a message of any kind say it was invalid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bb002 Posted September 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Got past the "trying to access cdrom" but it fails the "loading program into memory" but I think that has to do with the CDs being burned faster than 8x. Think I did those at 48x. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bb002 Posted September 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 (edited) Think I got it!!!! typed "linux acpi=off ide=nodma". I was browsing around and ran into a few parameters for passing to kernel during boot time. and this is was the minimal configuration that gets me to the installation window asking for my prefered language! I'll be gone for the next week, so I might not be able to post whether this worked fully or not. [edit] saw a typo right as i clicked post... Edited September 5, 2005 by bb002 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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