Re: spurious interrupt error causes a kernel panic during Debian install

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Lorenzo Cuciniello wrote:

> Hi everybody!
> Here is the nth newbie having problems with this error.
> I searched over the Net (uncle Google rules... ) but not encountered 
> the solution to my puzzling dilemma.
> I ever read about poeople who experience this error during the normal 
> computing activity (solving it with a simple dmesg),but none during 
> the install process.
> Briefly, my problem is that I cannot install Woody (3.0r2) with 
> precompiled bf24 kernel image on my machine,because of this error 
> after the first kernel loading.
> The error is:
> *************
> Spurious 8259A interrupt:IRQ7
> kernel panic!
> attempt to kill init
> **************


The two events are unrelated. The spurious interrupts have been going on 
for years. Not that I can locate one just now, but a little googling 
should clear that point up.





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John

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