HD Install :: turning on DMA

thanx guys for replay. I will give it a try.

Quote (starcannon @ Feb. 21 2006,20:56)

can also append it to your LiLo config then run LiLo as Root

I am a newbie on linux and DSL... could you please tell me a step by step procedure to enable dma at boot automatically? I've performed an HD installation, but after booting a message appears stating that dma hasn't been activated...

thank you very much!

Can someone please walkthrough how to make the stuff in the O'Reily tutorial permenent with reboot?
I'm not sure what file(s) he means in /etc/ folder to put the line in exactly. DSL has a bunch of rc*.d/ folders- are those the place? Which file? Can the line just go in lilo somewhere? Thanks!

I dont know what lines you are going to apply but try to write it to bootlocal.sh(is it bootlocal.sh?) file. It might work.

I just added "dma" at the end of the "append=..." line in the /etc/lilo.conf file.
It seems to work fine.
(sure hdparm lets you do much more than only enabling dma)

I hope it's of some use...

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