From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: System was successfully running RH7.1. I upgraded by booting from CDROM but the boot process hung at the message: Partition check: hda: When I booted with the 'ide=nodma' option everything worked and the upgrade was successfull except that I then encountered the exact same problem booting from the new kernel on the hard drive. I read about the issue on this page: http://www.exocore.com/technologies/linux/rhl71dma/ and saw that RedHat would like to know which models of CDROM drive should be blacklisted for not supporting DMA. This is my model info: $ cat /proc/ide/hdd/model ASUS CD-S400/A I have tried upgrading my motherboard BIOS to the latest available from ASUS but the kernel still won't boot off the hard drive with DMA enabled - so I've configured the option into grub.conf Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot without ide=nodma kernel option Actual Results: Kernel loads and displays various messages until it gets to: Partition check: hda Then it sits there - I gave up waiting after 15 minutes Expected Results: The system should have booted Additional info:
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