[Sussex] ubuntu boot probs

[Rob Boss]

Thanks Thomas one to try when i get back after easter great!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Adam" <thomas at edulinux.homeunix.org>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] ubuntu boot probs


> 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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