On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 18:51 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >Here's my question: Should I use the ide=nodma option each time I load > >FC4 or is the problem only with media check? > > > only the media check. The release notes has more details on this The release notes don't say to only use this for mediacheck, and with good reason. If it fails mediacheck while using DMA, then in some cases it'll fail during install for exactly the same reasons. If you need ide=nodma for mediacheck, you need it for the install as well. -- Peter