On Friday 16 July 2004 11:09 am, Rich wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >On Friday 16 July 2004 10:41 am, Rich wrote: > > � > > > >>Yesterday my computer (Mdk10) wouldn't boot. �The error message was "hda > >>interupt lost" . �It kept trying to boot but kept pausing with the same > >>message over and over. �I shut down and tried again and it booted > >> normally. > >> > >>Today, the same thing only I had to power down and up 3 times before it > >>finally booted. �Anyone have any ideas about what's going on? > >> > >>Rich > >> � � > > > >You could have a hardware problem with your hard drive > > > >Your IDE cable between the motherboard and the drive could be bad or not > >connected properly > > > >Some chipsets have a problem with kernel support for the APIC, which > > sometimes affects the IDE controllers, so the kernel must be started with > > some combination of the noapic, nolapic and acpi=ht boot parameters. �Try > > some combination of those (I need all three) > > � > > The WinXP partition doesn't have a problem booting and neither did > Mdk10, until yesterday. �This is something that just popped up.
If it is the apic/acpi issue, then WinXP wouldn't have a problem with it, as the chipset drivers for your motherboard would prevent anything like this. It is the driver modules in Linux, which have to be developed by reverse engineering the chipset, that can get a little shaky. If it really just popped up, it more likely would be a imminent failure of your drive or a bad cable. What is the chipset on your motherboard. if you don't know, post the output of 'lspci -v' -- /g
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