[PLUG] Intel MB woes
Roderick A. Anderson
raanders at acm.org
Thu Jun 21 23:21:18 UTC 2007
alan wrote:
> 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"?
>
Don't remember seeing this option (and it's all a blur right now :-)?
BIOS setup or boot option?
Rod
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