On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:35 pm, Peter wrote: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.
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.
I've tried pressing esc when booting in linux, linux-nonfb and failsafe, but I can't type anything at the prompt, it just hangs after this line:
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger
It hangs at this line now even when i don't press anything. Looking up the log, the only message I can see that might be related to this is:
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no spio magic); looks like an initrd
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found!
Could this have been an error cause by a mistake config at installation, and if so, should I just reinstall?
Thanks again, Peter
____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ____________________________________________________
