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[SOLVED] hde: timeout waiting for DMA
jason.ritzke:
Alright, I've tried this with every cheat code I know from other distros, in case there is one undocumented. No matter what I do, I cannot get TC to boot. Every time I get:
hde: timeout waiting for DMA
Now, I only have 4 hdd's in this box, so I'm assuming hde is the cd?
Also, before you ask, the system cannot boot from a USB stick as an alternative.
Compaq Proliant ML330 G2.
Any advice would be appreciated. I'm confident that once I get this booting I can move on fairly quickly.
curaga:
Try ide=nodma.
Rich:
Hi Jason
The fact that it's complaining about hde suggests that you have 5 drives in your rig. Are
you running SCSI, a mix of SCSI and ide, or an extra IDE controller card? A little more
information about your hardware might aid in solving your problem. You can also try
checking your BIOS setup to see if you can turn off DMA to your drives. If you can, do it
to all drives just to see if you can boot and to make sure none of the other drives are
causing a problem. If it boots you can start re-enabling DMA on the drives one by one.
jason.ritzke:
Intelligent reply, unfortunately something I've already tried.
I have tried (from previous posts for tinycore here and elsewhere):
nodma ide-core=nodma ide=nodma dma=off
On to the second reply:
Unfortunately, the bios of this system does not allow me to deactivate the DMA on the system, In fact, it doesn't give me many options on the drives themselves at all. It is a compaq server from the early 2000's, which means proprietary and annoying as hell. If I could get it to even boot a *nix distro from the HDD I would, but the system won't boot a kernel from the HDD at all.
jason.ritzke:
With regards to your actual QUESTION regarding my system configuration, this is what it is:
2 1.4 ghz p3's
768 MB of ECC Signed ram
Onboard ATI Rage XL
Onboard LSI MegaRAID host raid controller
Onboard 10/100 ethernet (don't remember the manufacturer off the top of my head.
Drives are like this
On the RAID card:CH1mas=40gb Maxtor,CH2slv=empty,CH2mas=40gb Maxtor,CH2slv=empty
NOTE the raid drives are configured as spare pool only in the host raid bios. I'd turn it off completely if I could, but then I lose the channels
IDE:CH1mas=CD drive,CH1slv=empty,CH2mas=60gb seagate,CH2slv=40gb maxtor
I don't see what HDE could be except for the CD....
And no, I don't have a usb drive plugged in to the back :-)
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