6 Feb
2002
6 Feb
'02
05:22
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:42:37PM +0100, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
No, the "safe mode" is a different thing - it actually uses the same kernel, just passes some additional boot parameters (e.g. "nodma, disableapic") to be able to boot on flaky/older hardware.
I'm using a computer that I got less than six months ago, an HP 1.7GHz Pentium, and it needed disableapic to boot. It also needs ide0 and ide1 =noautotune to operate reliably. (Oddly though, DMA mode running doesn't seem to affect reliability one bit.)