refv2@attbi.net wrote in message news:<jvrktv0buv4jnuk7haq2kif1rvovd2a89k@4ax.com>. ..
>
> Do a google on the error message. I had the same problem....Two
> solutions. Mine was the switch linux = nocddma......can't remember
> the other solution. Hope this helps
>


Thanks! I googled the error message and it seems to be pretty
widespread. Hmm, 2 things: 1) I wonder why I couldn't find it when
I googled before with admittedly different keywords (but that's no big
deal now), and 2) People were having this problem back with RH
7.something....and it's still a problem through fedora? Hmmmm.
Anyways, some solutions I gleaned were:

1) Shaky solution where one should put the CD drive as a slave off of
the primary IDE channel instead of a master on the secondary IDE.
This didn't work for me. (from a bugzilla post)

2) Your suggestion, but slightly different. Should be "linux nodma".
Another one was "linux allowcddma", which seems contradictory.
Haven't tried either yet (I will this evening), but a lot of people
found success with the first statement. (and fyi, edit the
/etc/grub.conf after install to eliminate this as the problem only
manifests during install....)

3) Perhaps a media error. Some people found their media to be
corrupted and downloaded it again and it seemed to work.....*shrug*
That's what I'm doing now.

I'm going to do option #2 with the new media from option #3 tonight.
Hopefully it will work.