Re: error in booting up OpenBSD 3.3 main cd

[sven_dehmlow@gmx.de]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, marlon corleone wrote:

> hi, im a FreeBSD user before, now im trying to shift
> to OpenBSD when i boot the first cd, i get this error:
>
> pciide0:0:0  busmaster DMA error: missing interrupt,
> status = 0 x21

Looks like typical DMA trouble. Did you already try

boot -c
disable pciide
quit

at boottime? This should do the same as

set hw.ata.ata_dma=0

in freebsd. Or in other words: It should turn DMA off.

Sven

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