Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

wolle · Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Germany

I got a problem booting PUPPY on an old DELL Notebook (Latitude CPi);
it seems, the harddisk is not accessible via DMA. Is there a means to give a cheatcode like "nodma" in KNOPPIX ?

Guest · Guest

I've got a Dell Latitude CPi D300XT and have no probs with DMA, the biggest prob is the Evil NeoMagic graphics chip

nrormanw · Guest

Have you fixed the problem ? I have those graphic problems on another pc working with neographic chip ! Will these problems been solved with the final release 1.0.2 we are expecting in the near future ?

guest · Guest

Has anyone solved this issue? Is there any way of turning off dma while booting from the Puppy CD(V1.06)?

Mark

gnomen · Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 65 Location: NORWAY

You can probably turn off dma in the bios

Another solution that might work is kernel parameters at the boot promt. At the promt where you choose between boot options you can pass any parameters to the kernel as what you normally do there is choose between different strings of parameters from a file

I am not sure, but if you start passing parameters at the boot promt I think you override everything that is in the syslinux.cfg file. So in order for it to work it is possible that you have to pass not only the parameters necessary for your particular system, but also all parameters that are necessary in order to boot Puppy on any system. A pretty long string of parameters in other words

I guess the only way to find out is to try. I checked this in vmware and it works there.. At the boot promt try:

mark_l · Guest

gnomen:

Thanks for your suggestion!! It worked!

I was able to work around a troublesome CDROM drive by turning off DMA. This allowed me to load Puppy up, then install it onto my hard drive. I even managed to install GRUB! All on an old Pentium MMX with 128 mb of RAM. I am using the system now to type out this reply (yes, even the old Rockwell modem still works).

Now I want to figure out how to replace the window manager with ICEWM.....

Again, thanks for your very helpful advice. Others with a CDROM that won't boot (I/O errors) should try this solution.

Mark L.

Flash · Posted: Sun 27 Nov 2005, 10:02 Post subject:

Mark, would you tell us exactly what you entered and where? Thanks. Smile

Mark_L · Guest

Flash:

Sorry about that! I should have been a bit more precise in what I did to solve the issue.

I typed in the code

lickthefrog · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 8

took me quite a while to find how to alter the startup so that it is "ide=nodma".

finally, i got puppy on this weird computer.

thanks.

now it'll take me forever again to figure out how to burn the command into a livecd, if possible, so that i can have puppy on every computer in the lab i oversee. (though i'm looking into LTSP).

wish me luck.