> 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
and may be also pci=noacpi this might be related too: Subj: [2.4] siimage locks hard on high load http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106319754600003&r=1&w=2 best, svetljo > -- > /g > > "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside > a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx > -- COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test -------------------------------------------------- 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualitätssieger! 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post
