Re: floppy booting kernel options

From: John Henderson (jhenRemoveThis_at_talk21.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:45:27 +1000

Earlier, I wrote:

> During installation and subsequent installed running of RH ES3,
> I find I have to use the boot switch "linux ide=nodma" to
> prevent linux from hanging whenever it tries to access my CD
> drive (even to play an audio CD).
>
> I boot from floppy. How can I automatically have this kernel
> switch invoked at every bootup? Is there some file somewhere I
> can edit to do this, or do I need to customize the kernel
> itself?
>
> Any alternative thoughts are welcome, of course.

Answering my own question, I've found that

        mkbootdisk --kernelargs "ide=nodma" <kernel>

does the job.

Why is that posting a question so often inspires one to look in
the right place for an answer? I've been puzzling over this
boot problem for over a week.

John

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