-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Shultz wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 04:51, Greg Meyer wrote: > >>On Tuesday 09 September 2003 09:25 pm, Jeff Shultz wrote: >> >>>drive. On the first stage install, it mentions that that hard drive is >>>"losing the interrupt" frequently as it works it's way through. >> >>That's the kind of thing that happens when i/o apic and/or acpi is not working >>properly. What mobo chipset do you have? Try booting with apic disabled >>(noapic) and acpi=off > > > nForce2 400 Ultra. It's a Gigabyte 7NNXP mobo. The SATA chipset is a > SI3112. > > As for the noapic and acpi=off, this is a bit hard to do when I'm > booting from the install CD-ROM's.
Why? At the syslinux prompt (the first screen you see), hit F1, and type: linux noacpi acpi=off (and add any other ones you think may be useful, hit F2 to see some more options, you might want vgahi, expert and a few others I have never needed ...) Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/X1S4rJK6UGDSBKcRAryPAJ4pECukcZqprPy9QJAj/VYIkKxEDwCfcz9M nWyD3zX3TmV1WJc1tvNrIcI= =n+0V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
