Guest swampfox84 Posted February 20, 2005 Report Share Posted February 20, 2005 Here's the deal. I used the Mandrake website to download the three CD images and I burned them to three disks. I then used those disks to install Mandrake (alongside Windows XP, of course, on a different partition). However, whenever the installation process gets to "Summary" the system does not move on and usually after a few hours I decide to reboot the system. I then try to boot Mandrake, but it only gets to "Bringing up interface eth0: Disabling IRQ#20 [FAILED] and stops. In otherwords, I cannot boot linux. This is my first time dealing with Linux, and I would like to get it working. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Did you verify the downloads with the md5sum? Did you turn off plug and play in the bios? What usb devices are you using? Does linux just hang at the eth0 device? Does linux stop responding during the install? Did you try linux noapic? If you don't know what some of this stuff is, just ask. I am going thru a "rapid" troubleshoot list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bwrobins Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 (edited) I am having the same problem with my Dell 4700 with onboard Intel Pro/100 VE NIC, I have also verified the md5 sum. Let me know any other questions you need in order for me to resolve this problem. Did you verify the downloads with the md5sum? Yes Did you turn off plug and play in the bios? Not a option What usb devices are you using? PDA, Dell Optical Mouse. Have tried it without PDA Does linux just hang at the eth0 device? Yes, until failed then fails at system logger and then continues to hang at the CUPS printing system Does linux stop responding during the install? It does stop responding right at the summary part Did you try linux noapic? No I have not tried it yet Edited March 18, 2005 by bwrobins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djc_slip Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 i'm no expert - in fact pretty new here, but. at the lilo screen boot into fail safe mode this should result in a terminal screen. log in as root cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ then vi ifcfg-eth0 *if indeed it is called eth0 change the option to the following - if it doesn't exist enter it ONBOOT=no save and exit try that - if it hangs at hardware detection etc it may be worth trying to enable ACPI and force no APIC though i am not too sure how you do that from the failsafe terminal (assuming you cannot enter the gui. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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