Delta_Farce
August 20th, 2006, 08:27 PM
Hi all,
It seems the advice I've been posting about adding the ide=nodma comment to the silo.conf file has been wrong, so I thought I'd post the correct way to do it here.
If you just edit /boot/silo.conf you will get errors on boot and have to manually boot your kernel, what you actually have to do is edit /etc/silo.conf and add the append="ide=nodma" line to each of your kernels.
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
append="ide=nodma"
initrd=/initrd.img
After editing that file, you can check that your silo.conf is valid by running:
# /sbin/silo
/etc/silo.conf appears to be valid
Then copy it to your /boot directory:
# cp /etc/silo.conf /boot
And check the integrity again:
# /sbin/silo -C /boot/silo.conf
/boot/silo.conf appears to be valid
After that, Ubuntu should load on a Sunblade without problems.
Cheers,
Mark
It seems the advice I've been posting about adding the ide=nodma comment to the silo.conf file has been wrong, so I thought I'd post the correct way to do it here.
If you just edit /boot/silo.conf you will get errors on boot and have to manually boot your kernel, what you actually have to do is edit /etc/silo.conf and add the append="ide=nodma" line to each of your kernels.
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
append="ide=nodma"
initrd=/initrd.img
After editing that file, you can check that your silo.conf is valid by running:
# /sbin/silo
/etc/silo.conf appears to be valid
Then copy it to your /boot directory:
# cp /etc/silo.conf /boot
And check the integrity again:
# /sbin/silo -C /boot/silo.conf
/boot/silo.conf appears to be valid
After that, Ubuntu should load on a Sunblade without problems.
Cheers,
Mark