On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:53:11PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > Howdy List, > > In doing some googling to get Debian setup on a Dell Inspiron 1501 I > found some people had better success with the contrast/brightness > function keys if they downgraded the bios to an older version. So, I > tried this but Debian started hanging with an error message about > "unexpected irq trap at vector XX". I then upgraded back to the bios > version that came with the laptop, but the unexpected irq trap persists. > > To make matters worse, the Debian Etch installer hangs with the same > error as well now (but different vector, if that means anything). > Knoppix, however, still boots just fine. > > I have tried adding "noapic nolapic" to the boot options. That seems to > help the installer boot eventually, though it still pauses for a long > time working on the error. Debian on the hard drive still will not boot > though, because it can not get root mounted after the unexpected irq > trap.
When I did a google search for "unexpected irq trap at vector", the hits suggests that this is ACPI related, not APIC ... So perhaps booting with "acpi=off" will make some headway? There are some other acpi-related parameters too you might want to play with... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.
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