Fedora 10 Installation: Hangs at *Disabling IRQ #9*

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Wed May 20 10:55:22 UTC 2009


Tim wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 20:11 -0400, Yang Yang Hu wrote:

>> The live CD doesn't work. Instead, at boot, I get *irq 9: nobody 
>> cared* and the boot screen recommends I try booting with the *irqpoll*
>> parameter. But how do I pass this parameter?
> 
> You append it to the kernel line.  On a live or installed system, that
> would be through grub.

I must be misunderstanding the OP, or else the answer.

I thought that if you put in a Live CD, and re-start the machine,
it just boots into Fedora.
How does grub come into it?


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