[PLUG] Intel MB woes

[alan]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> We just got a system with an Intel BLKDG965RYCK main board.  Can't get it 
> very far into the install process.  It keeps asking for an device to install 
> from.  This is with every Redhat-ian distribution we can find.
>
> A Samsung DVD/CD Writer on the IDE controller and every conceivable 
> combination or hard drives.
>   Started with a SCSI host adapter (Adaptec), went to a SATA drive connected 
> to the on board controller, finally a plain old IDE drive on the IDE chain 
> with the DVD/CD drive.
>
> We have also tried a simple 52X CD ROM drive and that too went horribly 
> wrong.
>
> Anyone familiar with this MB?  Any joy installing Linux on one?  It's 
> beginning to feel like a hardware issue.

Have you tried booting with "noapic"?

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