[oclug] gentoo installation hanging

[Olaf Baumann]

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 23:38, Stephen Gregory wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:14, Olaf Baumann wrote:
> 
> >   Now the question is, why do I have to disable DMA?  Is is BIOS upgrade
> > time or only should I only trust my 20G drive for swap and /tmp :(
> 
> I would check for a new bios first and try that. 
> 
> There is also a good chance that one of Gentoo's kernel patches is
> causeing instability. Install the system with ide=nodma, then compile a
> vanilla kernel and try that with dma.

That seems to be the case.  The install chugged along for ~20 hours
before I had gnome running, but no system hangs like before.  Now for
galeon, open office, and evolution.


> For hdparm the only option you need is '-d 1'. I have yet to see the
> other tweaker options do anything usefull.

thanks,
Olaf