Comment 13 for bug 159152

I'll be happy to test out the Alpha5 build after it is released, but can you tell me precisely what kernel option or options I should provide to disable DMA? I understand ide=nodma is deprecated and may even be removed at this point. And its never been clear exactly what the new option to disable DMA on all channels and devices should be with the new kernel switches.

Also, I believe the underlying IDE system may now different between Sparc and x86 kernels? Can you confirm?

Finally, to the earlier post, I'd like to provide logs of the system, but 9 times out of 10 the system crashed during installation (usually at drive partitioning), so I could never get a log. Nor could I pull and update the kernel to a machine which cannot install and boot. But perhaps the LiveCD will work -- if DMA is disabled for the DVD-ROM drive.