HD Install :: A couple questions for an old timer :)

Its been a long time and my memory is short

I have searched but cant find the answers to my questions.

1) How do i enable DMA on boot?

2) My swap partition isnt being used on boot how can i get to to work on boot?

thanks

-Tomo

I don't know about DMA, but as far as the swap is concerned. Make sure the partion is formatted as type 82 (Linux swap) go to a prompt and type:

mkswap /dev/hdX#
swapon /dev/hdX#

(for example if your swap is on the first hard drive, second partion type hda2).

I hope that helps

To enable dma at bootime, simply put "dsl dma" at the boot prompt.

That works for the cd boot version but i want to emable DMA at boot on a HD install.

thanks all

-Tom

Ok i figured it out.

It needed to be added lilo.conf

sorted thanks

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