Re: passing kernel options during network install?

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

> > hda: lost interrupt
> 
> Yeah. This is a bug. It really depends on which way the wind is blowing as 
> to whether the Aurora 1.0 kernel will work on the SB100 or not. The IDE 
> controller only has worked reliably in Linux very recently, 2.4.21-pre5 
> and higher.
> 
> Passing ide=nodma via: 
> boot net linux ide=nodma
> 
> may help things, but it may not.

Thanks, that seems to fix it (I'm currently 1800 megs into an install which
never got more than 100 megs w/o it).

It might be worth adding that to the FAQ as the proper syntax when doing
network installs, since I was trying various other incantations which didn't
work ;-)

This particular 'blade was previously running Debian. There, I needed the 
nodma as well, but just passed it at the SILO prompt....

> I don't have this as a "must-fix" until the next release of Aurora, but if
> public opinion is fervent enough, I can always spin a 1.1 with a newer
> kernel.

Sounds good. I can always upgrade manually after the install finishes. With 
the 2.4.21-pre5+ kernels, should I still need to disable DMA for the IDE 
controller?

later,
chris