[mikepg]

I am trying to install Linux on my PC. I've tried SuSE 9.2 and Fedora Core 3.

Here is the PC Setup

MOBO - MSI K7N-PLS Neo2
CPU - Intel P4 2.6Ghz
RAM - 512Mb PC3200
HD - WD IDE 80GB 8mb Cache
Video - Sapphire ATI 9200 Radeon AGP
Onboard Sound
Onboard Realtek LAN 10/100
LAN (2) Linksys 10/100/1000 PCI

I have one partition that is 27Gb and has Win XP Pro on it.

Here is what happens with SuSE. I boot to the DVD and it goes through the setup where I see the text displaying. It keeps displaying "disabling IRQ 10" over and over and says something about APCI or something. I'll check on that. It checks the files (takes about 10 minutes) and then it checks the hardware (Haven't gotten past this point yet) This is almost 45 mins into the install. I call it quits here.

Now for Fedora 3. I get farthere on here and sometimes it even goes to the point where I can re-boot. It still has a problem with IRQ 10. I select desktop installation. I have the installer automatically partition the HD and I select it to "use the free space available on the HD" This is about 47Gb. It goes throught the install process and just hangs. At least Fedora gets farthere than Suse.

I don't understand what the problem is here. I've installed from both DVD's before and it has worked fine. Is it possible to to install on a HD that also has XP Pro on it?

Any ideas here would be great!

[horndude]

go into the BIOS and start disabling things, start with the power management, should only take maybe 10mins to install on that speedy machine.Yo may have to change some things like automatic IRQ control.Id turn everything off you know you dont need and install it and see what happens, then go back and start turning stuff back on till you find it.It sounds like the power management is the issue, it could be something else.

I dont know anything about that motherboard, that have the nvidia chipset?

Linux and some of these automated hardware detection scheme's some distro's use will hang with some of the really new hardware on motherboards.Linux doesnt always use the BIOS like windows does either to determine what to do with hardware, the BIOS can get in the way sometimes.Just like some video cards dont like video shadowing or BIOS controlled options.

The rest should be ok, I think ATI even recently released drivers for that card finally after refusing for a long time.

[mikepg]

yeah it is an nvidia chipset

[horndude]

It should be ok, but you may want to do some checking around.

as far as I know currently the only problem linux has with any of the new hardware is some SATA controllers, some WiFi cards, and power management on some boards

usually there are some workarounds for those, like I said, give disabling the power management a try and see, your install shouldnt take very long at all, if its hanging, something is wrong

[mikepg]

I did a little more looking into it. i turned off the Power management. and it still seems to be having problems with IRQ 10. Before the program boots to the DVD, the post screen PCI devices are listed and this is listed along with "Onbaord IDE, IRQ 10" Onbard Ethernet is IRQ 5 and AGP VGA IRQ 11. It then scans the DVD drive and boots to the Fedora Core install screen

During thein installation this is what I picked outh that I though was most likely wrong:

"irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[<c0107da9>]__report_bad_irq+03a/0x77


Disabling IRQ #10
"irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
Disabling IRQ #10
"irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
Disabling IRQ #10
"irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
Disabling IRQ #10
"irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)
[<c026a957>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x450)

Goes to a screen with different type text font and before it goes to the Media test screen the last loading part looks like this:



Then it finally goes to the media test. and asks if I was
running installer
runnning sbin/loader/
disabling irq 10
disabling irq 10
disabling irq 10
disabling irq 10
disabling irq 10
disabling irq 10

Next is the Media test and says that I can test the CD (even though it is a DVD)

Could any of this have to do with the drives being put on Cable Select?

[horndude]

yes, drives should be master or slave

[mikepg]

Ok, I set the 80 GM to Master on IDE channel 1 and the DVDRW to Master on Channel 2. Still No GO!!!

[horndude]

dont know what to tell you honestly, really im baffled

go here: http://www.linuxquestions.org and search for that mobo and maybe give few tries at that a search on this problem, not even sure what you'd enter in a search to find it really

I cant believe its doing this,although Ive never tried a DVD install before either,I would think it would be fine, no reason for it not to be

[bulitka]

I too have experienced the same thing when trying to load FC3 on a P4 2.8GHz machine with WinXP Pro and SP2. I am trying to load FC3 from a DVD.

Has anybody found a solution to this problem?

Thanks,
-N

[mikepg]

I'm trying to update the bios but I need a win 98 or ME Startup disk!!