Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: "hda: lost interrupt".

[Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>]

Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'm running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100 and currently using the
> > 2.4.23-1-386 kernel.  I've tried to upgrade to the following packages:
> > 
> > kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386
> > kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386
> > kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7
> > 
> > and they all get stuck on "hda: lost interrupt" while trying to boot.  I
> > thought any 386 kernel ought to be upward-compatible with an Athlon,
> > and a k7 ought to be ideally suited for it.  Any ideas what's wrong?
> 
> Try booting with noapic.

Thanks.  I added that to the append="..." in /etc/lilo.conf and it
fixed the problem.

Just out of curiosity, why did this become necessary (for my hardware
at least) between the 2.4.23 and 2.4.26 kernels?

Thanks,
Adam