On Saturday 21 September 2002 04:30 pm, Joan Tur scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > Hallo! > > A friend's Compaq Presario 905 is having the following problem while trying > to boot from CD (tested with 8.2, 9rc2 and 9rc3): > > ... > ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 80 > PCI: no IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:10.0. Please try using > pci=biosirq > ... > > > Partition check: > > hda: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 > > ... > > I've tryed booting "linux pci=biosirq" with no luck. He hasn't got the > option in bios to assingn irqs manually. > >
The error message "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7" is annoying, but AFAIK, harmless. Simply add pci=biosirq to the kernel command in LILO or GRUB. Afterward, is there a hardware problem? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Remember that amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.
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