Re: Can't boot: "hda: lost interrupt" after possibly screwing up kernel.

From: Andreas Janssen (andreas.janssen_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 02/09/04

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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 00:59:38 +0100

    Hallo

    Adam (<a24061@yahoo.com>) wrote:

    > I am (was) running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100. Since I last
    > successfully booted, I added the hotplug package and the line
    > usb-storage
    > to /etc/modules. I was trying to get sensors to work, which
    > downgraded my
    > kernel (from 2.4.23) to 2.4.20. I then removed kernel-image-2.4.20
    > and added kernel-image 2.4.23-i686.
    >
    > Now my machine won't finish booting. It appears to load the kernel,
    > recognizes all the drives, then goes into this:
    >
    > hda: attached ide-disk driver.
    > hda: lost interrupt
    > hda: lost interrupt

    You can boot from one of the Debian CDs. For example, insert CD1 and
    type:

    rescbf24 root=/dev/hdsomething

    Or try to boot with your current kernel, and pass either the pci=noacpi
    or acpi=off parameters. In some cases this helps.

    best regards
            Andreas Janssen 

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