William Hooper wrote:
> "noone" <noone@noone.org> wrote in message
> news:btjmhb$kn3$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
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>>So it looks like a defective CD problem, despite the fact that the
>>checkmedia process says it passed ... but there's more to this as you
>>will see below.
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>
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> Possibly a CD-ROM drive problem. Did you try:
>
> linux ide=nodma
>
> at the boot prompt?
>


... hhmmm .... isn't that supposed to be ideX=nodma?
Which in my case, is ide1=nodma ( since the CDROM drive is IDE channel 1 ) ?