[Sussex] ubuntu boot probs

[Thomas Adam]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:13:58AM -0000, Rob Boss wrote:

Please *don't* thread hijack.  It's extremely lazy to just hit reply to
a random message, delete the context, and carry on typing.  Unbeknown to
you, the e-mail header would have had an "In-Reply-To" field which a lot
of e-mail clients use to keep track of threading.  

When you want to start a new e-mail, *do* so.

> I fear theres not a lot i can do about this but any way ..here goes .i
> have an ubuntu "based" live cd when tying to boot off it everything
> starts fine but slows to repeated error msgs saying: lost interupt
> and grinds to halt am i right in thinking that this could be chipset
> problem (sis ) Rob boss THANKS

Yes, more than likely.  Check the bootparam howto at www.tldp.org, they
might have some suggestions.  You could (at a push) try booting Ubuntu
with a parameter of 'nodma'.

-- Thomas Adam

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