On Friday 14 March 2003 09:32 am, Brook Humphrey wrote: > On the other hand the thing that gets me is cdrom/dvdrom I've seen quite a > few times these devices when they are going bad. Durring install they well > get all kinds of lost interupt errors on screen 4 you will be able to > easily see this. The ide bus will reset itself but then it just goes back > to lost interupt errors. This will continue until you 1) eject the cdrom > from the cd drive or two stop the install by rebooting the system. If you > do 1 above you may be able to continue the install but the cdrom may go > back to lost interupts so it's not a for sure. This activity will always > occur during package instelation. In every case this has happened replacing > the defective drive has solved the issues.
This can also occur on uni-processor machines with poor apic implementations. Turning off apic support in the bios and the kernel can solve the problem also. -- Greg
