Disabling IRQ 5 message

[xtknight]

My installation of Mandriva 2006 went fine until first my mouse worked, then it just stopped working. Well, I'm fine with using my keyboard for installation. So I proceed to the point where it says 'installing CK804 SATA driver' (nForce4 chipset). It just froze there. In text install mode I could see the error messages (among them: "Disabling IRQ 5" and "irq 5: nobody cared"), and couple of stack dumps off of 'sata_nv'. Switching the PCI PnP OS option in my BIOS didn't change anything, so I switched it back to what it originally was (off). So other users suggested these kernel flags:

linux union=yes acpi=off nolapic

That fixed the freezing part, but there's another problem. After I get past the freezing point using those options, then my keyboard doesn't work, so I have nothing to input with. Fedora 4 and SUSE 10 installed fine. Why is Mandriva having so many problems?

 

[Nothinman]

I have never heard of the 'union' option and looking through the kernel sources don't seem to mention it anywhere either. sata_nv is obviously one of the SATA drivers, if it's failing in Mandriva and not in other distros I would say Mandriva is applying a bad patch to their kernel. Have you checked their bug database?

 

[xtknight]

Not sure. Anyhow finally I got the keyboard to work by adding 'irqfixup'. But then I reboot and the boot loader is essentially dead. I guess disabling apic made it not even detect the controller and thus not the drives or something. But then what was it installing to? Anyhow I just used my XP CD fixmbr/fixboot and I'm back in business for now but my SUSE 10 installation is gone now because I did a network install with it. I guess I'll avoid Mandriva for now; it probably uses too old of a kernel for my motherboard.

Does the mini boot CD (the one you download to do a network install) have the rescue function on it so I can install the GRUB boot loader again? My Fedora 4 CD 1 rescue just freezes up as well. Isn't getting my SUSE 10 back kind of hopeless if I didn't make a floppy for it? I'll just burn another DVD (this time of OpenSUSE 10) and use the rescue function on it (I'd like a hard copy of the install disc anyway). Would it be able to load the boot loader so it links to my old SUSE?

Moral of the story: don't use arguments if you don't know what they do.

 

[Nothinman]

Disabling APIC should just force it to use the old method for handling IRQs, it shouldn't have anything to do with your hard disk.

Sorry, I don't really know anything about the discs provided by Fedora, SuSE or Mandriva.

 

[xtknight]

Hmm...there is no DVD for OpenSUSE 10?