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

2004-09-11 Thread Lorenzo Cuciniello
Hi John! John Summerfield wrote: Incase I didn't make it clear, the spurious interrupt is not your problem. It's harmless. I think I had it on a Pentium system, Intel and/or SiS chipset (the original mobo failed), certainly on Pentium II (LX). If not for the message there would be no indication

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

2004-09-10 Thread Lorenzo Cuciniello
Justin Guerin wrote: Would you be willing to try installing Sarge? I'm strongly considering to wait for the next Stable before installing.In these days I also tried to run some Deb-based distributions (Knoppix 3.3 Live Cd,Morphix and Progeny),but no one installs.Slack 10.0 does it (with the b

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

2004-09-10 Thread Lorenzo Cuciniello
Pigeon wrote: Try turning off the APIC in the BIOS setup rather than in the kernel. I had something similar once and this got it going. Tried.No way! Thnx anyway Lorenzo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2004-09-10 Thread Pigeon
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

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

2004-09-10 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 09 September 2004 00:32, 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 erro

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

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
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

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

2004-09-09 Thread Lorenzo Cuciniello
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",b

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

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
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 (solvi

Re: spurious interrupt

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Robert Storey wrote: For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message: "spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7" I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what it means? regards, Robert If you have an nForce2 mobo, this is actually normal, and harmless

Re: spurious interrupt

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Storey
Dear Andy, Thanks for the reply. I'm embarassed that I didn't do a proper job of searching for the answer myself. One possible source of the problem may be that I have a routing conflict between irq 7 and irq 9 caused by my sound card clashing with the sound device built into the motherboard (

Re: spurious interrupt

2003-12-13 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:47:01PM +0100, Robert Storey wrote: > For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message: > > "spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7" > > I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what it > means? I did a little searching for

Re: Spurious interrupt...

2002-10-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya derrick thanx for the entertainment !!! c ya alvin On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: ... > | : > | This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you > | must not disclose, distribute or use the information in it as this could > | be a breach of co

Re: Spurious interrupt...

2002-10-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:42:00AM +0800, Joey Quevedo wrote: | Hi, | | Does anybody know what does this message means: | | "Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7"? It means "nothing", more-or-less. At one point I did a google search and found out more details. I see it too, on a dell inspirion 7500