On Saturday 17 May 2008 13:56, km wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:10 AM, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 May 2008 13:09, km wrote: > > > > how > > > > > > > > > to set the boot options. > > > > > > > > In K/Ubuntu, at the initial boot options gui list, hit the F6 > > > > key and add whatever options you want to add, at the blinking > > > > cursor. In this case noapic. > > > > > > Thank you everyone for replying.. > > > > > > > > > > > > hey Rony, i tried the F6 option and entered "noapic" at the > > > prompt that popped up.. Just appended "noapic" after the string > > > that was already there ending in "--" > > > But it did not work; again showed the same error lines. > > > > at the end of the line type > > noapic nolapic > > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions?highlight=%28bootop > >tions%29 > > > > should help. > > It sure does, thanks. > > > BTW what mobo? what cpu?. > > ALWAYS before you start an install get the hardware details. > > Thank you all again for replying. > The mobo and cpu are Asus M2NE and AMD 3600+ respectively. > > Are there any specific issues related with this hardware?
Yes. The MCP61 chipset apic does not play well with linux. But works very well otherwise. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
