On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 23:03, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > > 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, >
Now that is extremely interesting. I think I may have made the right choice in going back to the ATA133 drives.
