On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:30 pm, 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. Hmmm.... all the sudden I'm inspired > to go looking for floppy images.... which doesn't help at all since that > isn't how they work, apparently. > Hit f1 at the splash and type linux noapic acpi=off -- /g
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