From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031027 Description of problem: During the install of packages with Fedora Core I will get a failure that says "Spurious 8259A interrupt on IRQ 7." After that I get ATAPI CDROM busy and reset messages and the install fails. It consistently happens after installing less than a dozen packages. I've tried this with two different CDROM drives and cables. The CDROMs themselves pass the media check. The machine is a dual P3 with a serverworks chipset. (Tyan Thunder mainboard) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Core Installer How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to install Fedora Core on my hardware 2. 3. Actual Results: Spurious 8259A Interrupt on IRQ 7 followed by IDE busy and reset errors Expected Results: The install should work Additional info:
Same problem occurs with RH9, but earlier in the install process.
After a lot of runs at the problem it appears that my spindle of CD-Rs had turned bad. Repeated tests and burns of discs showed errors. I'll close this until I'm sure I've got fresh CD-R media.