it sounds like it might be more of a harddrive problem, i've also seen that when the drive heats up. On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Kevin Bradley wrote: > I posted this once before and no one was able to help, I'm hoping the > list membership has grown enough that someone will know how to help. > > I have an old HP vectra (dual P133) machine and was running the SMP > kernel fine under 7.2, but since upgrading to 9, I get "hda: lost > interrupt" messages during the boot process. It gets about as far as > mounting / and then the error just repeats and repeats. I believe it is > still trying to work around the error, but it's unable to make any progress. > > At any rate, I'm reduced to running with only one CPU right now and > REALLY need the second one to make this box usable. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Kevin > > >