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



On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 05:32:54PM +0200, Lorenzo Cuciniello wrote:
> Hi!
> John Summerfield wrote:
> >Lorenzo Cuciniello wrote:
> >
> >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.
> 
> Thanks for your answer.I've googled searching for "spurious 
> interrupt",but found nothing reliable and working about my problem.
> I mean, someone says "it's a hardware problem regarding AMD/VIA/ASUS" 
> (but there's no proof about this)
> someone other says "you must disable the APIC feature in the kernel" 
> (tried,doesn't work)
> someone other says "try to disable ACPI" (neither it works),
> someother "ok disable the framebuffer modality at startup".
> My personal impression is that this error is largely documented about 
> cases regarding PC's with Linux installed and running but quite obscure 
> when it happens during the first install,with a bullet-proof kernel (bf24).
> I'd really know your opinion about this.

Try turning off the APIC in the BIOS setup rather than in the kernel.
I had something similar once and this got it going.

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