Hi everyone!
i have a new pc (penthium III - 2,8 Mhz, Hard disk 80 Gb, 1 Gb Ram) whith Asus P4V8X-X motherboard (256 Mb Ram) so I'm tring to install red hat 9.0 on it. The hard disk have two partition:
1) fat 32 whit windows OS
2) ext3 whit red hat 9.0 Linux release.

All the installation processes was be right, but now, when I start my pc, after the grub window, where I decide wich OS to start (linux or windows), when I select the red hat option and click return, the linux OS begin to start but after some row it tell me: "IDE: Unknown VIA SouthBridge, disabling DMA" and the pc stop itself.
I have no problem when I start windows OS.

Does anyone help me?

Thanks,

Andrea

This requires a little command-line work

step 1) When your computer first presents the GRUB menu, press 'e' when you have Red Hat selected. it will give you a screen with something like
step 2) when you have that screen, select the line that mentions the kernel and press press 'e' to actually edit the kernel parameters.

step 3) type at the end of the line which will turn off DMA functionality but still give you a working but slightly slower system.

step 4) press 'b' to boot linux .

if all this gets your system running then at the login screen login as root and edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf to add the nodma tag to your kernel parameters.

HTH

Thank you linuxnut2003, but the problem don't disapare if I disable DMA, so I have decided to change the motherboard.

Hi


mys71

you're quite welcome though i'm sorry that you have to change the motherboard