Help! gentoo box broken ?!?

Loki_Patera · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 6

My gentoo box started acting sporadic...(mouse went crzay in X and I couldn't click on anything), so I killed X and my terminals weren't taking keyboard input correctly...

So decided to reboot (bad MS habit, I know..)

now on bootup I get the error (which stalls the boot):

spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

when the system tries to mount /proc.

Does anyone know what this error means? Or how to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

PS - my box has been up and working for a while so I don't think this is an issue with the install.

manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 739 Location: Inside

If you google for that error you will get a lot of hits. From what I've read (I get that error on boot also) it's harmless. Here's one thread. http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg64520.html

Loki_Patera · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 6

If its harmless how do I get the machine to finish booting up?

Loki_Patera · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 6

Seems my problem is not the error but that it fails to ever mount /proc

Oh well, I've been thinking of reinstalling anyways...

Thanks for the help.

lucasjb · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 3:05 am Post subject: Me too!

Hi Guys,

I've got the same problem, system hangs trying to mount proc at /proc. I've also noticed the odd spurious interrupt 8259A: IRQ7 (occasionally when booting off the LiveCD or Knoppix). Are they related? It started happening to me after an emerge -u world. More details here. Did either of you figure this out? I really don't want to reinstall

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Lucas