Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: "hda: lost interrupt".
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- Subject: Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: "hda: lost interrupt".
- From: Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:04:14 GMT
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On Thursday 06 January 2005 21:20, Joe wrote:
>>Is it a "defect" that requires the noapic option?
>>
>>
> I think so. I don't believe a mere absence of a feature should stop a
> kernel booting, particularly a Knoppix one. I think it must be a
> hardware bug.
>
> In fact a quick Google on 'k7s8x noapic bios' suggests that upgrading
> to version 2.30 of the BIOS will fix it. I'm still not sure I'll
> bother, I had a bad experience flashing a BIOS a few years ago.
I'd been having intermittent network problems at some point since I
started using noapic, so I got the K7S8X_260.ZIP upgrade from the
ASRock website and installed it. The kernel now boots without the
noapic option.
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Thanks,
Adam
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