[ale] disabling DMA

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Yu, Jerry wrote:
> at boot, append ' ide=nodma' to disable DMA for all IDE devices. 
> or enter single user mode to edit boot manager configuration to add this
> option first.
> 
> hehehe, hasn't play SUSE for quite a while, what boot manager does it use?
> If it is LILO or GRUB, it should be really simple. 
> 
> Once you boot into it, you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf or
> /boot/grub/grub.conf to add 'ide=nodma' to it.  (location may vary for SUSE)

Defaults to grub, /boot/grub/menu.lst is the file.

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