The "irq 18: nobody cared"-message disappears on my system (Abit IP35 Pro XE motherboard) by changing the SATA mode in the BIOS from IDE to ACHI. This motherboard uses the ICH9R southbridge.
The system is still really slow at starting up though, as can be seen here: Sep 23 07:08:00 ubuntu kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0 Sep 23 07:08:00 ubuntu kernel: [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Sep 23 07:08:00 ubuntu kernel: [ 0.000000] Detected 2839.131 MHz processor. Sep 23 07:08:00 ubuntu kernel: [ 38.449890] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Sep 23 07:08:00 ubuntu kernel: [ 38.449892] console [tty0] enabled This is reported in Bug #247960. -- Live CD error "irq 18: nobody cared" and long delay before booting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272621 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
