On Friday 27 July 2001 15:29, you wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Bert Vortman wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > One of my harddisks has a problem with dma mode, but it works oke
> > without dma. I use it primary as a temporary storage device. But every
> > time i boot redhat, it takes ages passing the 'partition check'. The
> > error is 'timeout waiting for DMA'. I tried shutting down DMA by setting
> > the USE_DMA=0 variable in the /etc/harddiskhdb file, and somewhere i
> > read to insert a 'ide0=nodma' somewhere in lilo.conf. But that does not
> > work (and I can't find anywhere in the docs such an option for lilo).
> > So, how can i skip the partition check for /dev/hdb? Or make the system
> > aware that it should not use dma with that drive?
>
> The lilo.conf line you are looking for is:
>
> append="ide0=nodma"
>
> It goes anywhere below the image= line, and before another image= or
> other= line.
That does not work, the partitioncheck at boottime keeps on waiting for DMA.
Can i skip the partition check somehow? I can't find it in the rc.sysinit and
related scripts. Can you explain what happens in the startup part before
rc.sysinit is executed?
thanks for any help!
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