On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:35 pm, Peter wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Complete linux newbie here. I've just got past the installation of MDK > 10.1 without too much trouble (on an AMD laptop, partition with WinXP), > but my problems start when booting into linux. > > It just seems to hang with the message: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 > > Now from looking around the web, I've found some other reports of this > error [1] > > One solution I found[2] was to add the following line to /etc/lilo.conf > and rerun lilo. > > append = "parport=0x378,7" > > I'd like to give this a go (hey, it might work for me), but am a bit > lost as to how to go about it. > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > > [1] http://jmz.iki.fi/blog.php/en/article/1057989236 > [2] http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.3/0861.html
Hi Peter, You can pass that line into kernel booting. When the boot loader screen shows up, press esc, and type that line. append = "parport=0x378,7" Continue booting. Once inside linux, you can make that permanent in the /etc/lilo.conf then type lilo on the console to update the conf. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 21:19:10 up 21:01, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key
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