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. By the way - formatting the drive fails... after a _very_ long time. Re-partitioning also fails - but that just stalls the install for infinity. I think it's time to hook up the Maxtor's, that I got in hopes of being able to use the GigaRAID features of the mobo, as the system drives.
