On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 09:43, Buchan Milne wrote: > -----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 ...) > Thanks for the tips... unfortunately acpi doesn't appear to be the problem - I still had the lost interrupt errors.
At this point (since I'd like to get this system in operation to replace two others) I think my best bet is to drop back to the ATA-133 Maxtors and 9.1. It has been more than a little facinating watching the 9.2RC process though.
