Re: [suse-sparc] Will there be a SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 13:53:04 PST

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    Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:53:04 +0100
    From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
    Message-ID: <20020308225304.A18974@suse.de>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Will there be a SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?
    

    On Fri, Mar 08, Eduardo J. Vega Arguedas wrote:

    > And what about the Support for Sun blade 100 ?
    >
    > It crash just at the start of the installation ?

    This was already discussed here (I think also with a solution?).
    The Problem seems to be "bad" IDE hardware. You can try to boot
    with "ide=nodma" as kernel parameter or switch, after you see YaST2,
    to tty2 and disable the use of DMA with hdparm. This seems to
    solve the problem.

      Thorsten

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