Disable IRQ #10

[scorpio2002]

Hi there! I'm having a problem, hope you can help me with it:

My MB broke down some dyas ago and so I had to change it. Before then, I had two partitions... one containing Fedora core 3 and the other one containing Windows. The technichan who installed the new MB also reinstalled Windows because it didn't boot anymore(due to the different chipset, I guess).
So, now, I have a perfect-working windows machine but I can't boot into Linux. This is not a big problem, because I was planning on installing Fedora 4.

But, when I tried to install it, I got this loop message everywhere "Disabling IRQ #10" and then everything hanged. Pretty annoying.

Thst's my configuration:

Asus P4P800-X
P4 - Prescott 3000
HD 80Gb IDE
Ati Radeon 7000
DVD Sumsung TS-H552
RAM 512 Mb

Just in case you fancy, the broken Mb was a ASRock P4VT8+...

got any idea? What does "IRQ #10" mean?

Ciao,
Donato
Italy

[weapon]

try typing (when booting the install cd) linux acpi=off (I think)

Weapon

[scorpio2002]

Thank you Weapon, but unfortunatelly it didn't work. I'll try to give you more details:

**********************
hda:<4>hda:dma_timer_expiry:dma status == 0x64
hda DMA interrupt recovery
hadlers
[<....>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x510)
[<....>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x510)
Disabling IRQ #10
hda: lost interrupt
irq 10: nobody cared

**********************

actually it's a bit longer... and it seems to repeat for all the ide drive. I can't understand what's the problem...

[Tantalus90]

try going onto the BIOS and disabling the "plug and play OS" opttion

this should let the OS enable and disable the IRQs it need to without the MoBo trying to over ride it

Tant

[scorpio2002]

Thank you Tant, but it didn't work. looks like there's some problems with the ide devices... but what could it be?
Maybe my new mb and the linux kernel don't get along damn it!

[scorpio2002]

is it possible that there's nothing to do about it? looks like I'll never be able to use linux on this system...

I'll call Asus to have this ****ty mb changed with something compatible with linux. If you are not able to make MBs, please don't do it. Or if your MBs are not compatible with some operating systems, please say that before having people buy them. Very disappointed. Asus is anything but serius.

[Tantalus90]

what else is trying to use IRQ 10 mate ?

you should see this info flash up briefly on boot, hit the pause key to freeze it in view

Tant

[scorpio2002]

I can't see any reference to IRQ #10 when booting...

But I think I'll throw this mb away because I'm pissed off. And you shoud add it to the blacklist, because it's done not to work under linux, no other explanations.

[fpoole]

I got this same message when anaconda was loading my

sata_nv

(nVidia) drivers. Following that, setup freezes and I end up restarting. Other times I got a "Fedora Core CDROM not found in any of your local CDROM devices."

I'm really hoping that since I have a different mb that I can work around this.

[scorpio2002]

can someone tell me what are IRQs? As far as I know, they should be physical addresses of the things that are on a motherboard, aren't they?

[Tantalus90]

http://kb.iu.edu/data/ailq.html

nice info here , and fairly simple

Tant

[fpoole]

It says IRQ #10 is open, so... :/

[scorpio2002]

Thank you Tant for the useful link.
Is it possible to talk directly to some fedora developer? May be a kernel developer... they should be quite knowledgebale about these kinds of issues. And again, that's not a problem I have only with Fedora... basically it happens with any distro I try. :|||

[A6quattro]

I have a VERY similar problem with both FC# and FC4.
I have a very strange message when I try to install FC4 on my one machine. I get to the install screen and hit enter for a new installation. it runs for about 5 secs and starts to hang. it keeps displaying the following message:

hdc: lost interrupt
irq 10: nobody cared!
[<c014e5fc>]__report_bad_ird+0x1c/0x70
[<c014e6db>]note_interrupt+0x5b/0x90
[<c014????>]__do_IRQ+0x1e3/0x2e0
[<c014????>]do_irq+0x51/0x90
There are 2 mores sections or so of this and it keeps repeating itself for about 5 mins.

IT then goes into anaconda installer init version 10.2.1.5 starting
mounting /proc filesystem.... done
creating /dev filesystem.... done
mounting /dev/pts (unix98 pty) filesystem.... done
mounting /sys filesystem.... done
cound not set new controlling tty
Trying to remount root filesystem read write.... done
mounting /temp as ramfs.... done
running install....
running /sbin/loader
Disabling irq #10
Disabling irq #10
Disabling irq #10
Disabling irq #10
Disabling irq #10
Disabling irq #10....... It just repeats this over and over.

Any ideas?

It does something similar with FC3 as well but it goes throught the entire process about 15x faster. It actually gets to the "media test" screen on FC3. I select skip and have a blue screen with "disabling IRQ #10" coming up over and over again down the left hand part of the screen.

Has anyone experiened anything like this before?

I am running a P4 2.6, MSI 865PRO-II Neo2, 512mb PC3200, WD 80GB, ATI 9200 Video card NEC 8x DVD+-R

[A6quattro]

I've tried turning acpi off in the BIOS, and there is no way to switch to an no PNP OS. Very tired of tring to tinstall this on this PC. I actually got through the installation of the OS once but it hung at the end of the installation process whtn it was verifing the installed files.

I've had problems with FC3 and 4 on MSI boards. on another comnputer with a AMD cpu, I get to the GUI interface of the install and the screen is split. There is a black line down the middle about 20% of the width of the screen.... Don't know WTF is going on with Fedora.

It runs Great on my other machine which has an albatron MOBO and a p4 2.53...