On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: > Hi, > I'm now running 9.0, but I can't get it to work while my CD writer is > connected to my motherboard [Most likely, I also had this problem with > 8.2, but my hardware setup was different there, so it's not the best to > compare] > I was unable to install with the drive connected to the motherboard, so I > disconnected, installed without it and have since tried to reconnect the > drive and boot. All those attempts have resulted in lockups. > > I tried all combinations of apic/noapic in the bios and as a boot parameter > to linux as well as with and without supermount. > The net result: > supermount has no effect on this freeze. > Booting with/without noapic in lilo has no effect either. > With APIC off in the bios, I can't even boot, but with APIC on in the bios, > I can start and log into the console, but logging into KDE freezes the > computer. > The last message in the logs before the freeze is (unsurprisingly): > Oct 1 17:45:56 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > > I put the output of dmesg up on the web: > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~narfi/dmesg.txt > and > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~narfi/dmesg_noapic.txt > for the 2 cases where supermount was enabled, apic enabled in bios and lilo > was run with or without the "noapic" parameter. > > Please let me know if you need any more info > Narfi. > > One important thing to add: I've read in the MSI forums that in the case of 8.2, this bug only surfaced with BIOS version > 3.3. I am using version 3.4 and would very much like to assist with making Mdk work out of the box with the newer versions of the bios.
Narfi.
