Re: Can't boot: "hda: lost interrupt" after possibly screwing up kernel.

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hallo

Adam (<a24061@yahoo.com>) wrote:

> I am (was) running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100.  Since I last
> successfully booted, I added the hotplug package and the line
> usb-storage
> to /etc/modules.  I was trying to get sensors to work, which
> downgraded my
> kernel (from 2.4.23) to 2.4.20.  I then removed kernel-image-2.4.20
> and added kernel-image 2.4.23-i686.
> 
> Now my machine won't finish booting.  It appears to load the kernel,
> recognizes all the drives, then goes into this:
> 
> hda: attached ide-disk driver.
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: lost interrupt

You can boot from one of the Debian CDs. For example, insert CD1 and
type:

rescbf24 root=/dev/hdsomething

Or try to boot with your current kernel, and pass either the pci=noacpi
or acpi=off parameters. In some cases this helps.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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