[newbie] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

2004-12-29 Thread Peter
Hi Guys, Complete linux newbie here. I've just got past the installation of MDK 10.1 without too much trouble (on an AMD laptop, partition with WinXP), but my problems start when booting into linux. It just seems to hang with the message: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Now from looking around

Re: [newbie] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

2004-12-29 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:35 pm, Peter wrote: Hi Guys, Complete linux newbie here. I've just got past the installation of MDK 10.1 without too much trouble (on an AMD laptop, partition with WinXP), but my problems start when booting into linux. It just seems to hang with the message:

Re: [newbie] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

2004-12-29 Thread Peter
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:35 pm, Peter wrote: It just seems to hang with the message: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Now from looking around the web, I've found some other reports of this error [1] One solution I found[2] was to add the following line to /etc/lilo.conf

Re: [newbie] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

2004-12-29 Thread Peter
Peter wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:35 pm, Peter wrote: It just seems to hang with the message: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Now from looking around the web, I've found some other reports of this error [1] One solution I found[2] was to add the following line to