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. When installing, it's the command line prompt that you use to start the installation. The one where you can press F keys to see some help, hit enter to just install, or type options in to do something differently. e.g. type in linux irqpoll After installation, or when booting a live disc, you can do the same thing temporarily, by hitting a key when grub starts up to edit grub parameters. And if your computer works with those additional parameters, you can modify the grub.conf file to always use that parameter. Chances are that if you have to add it to install, you'll need to add it to run your computer normally, as well. For example, the top of my grub.conf looks like this: title Fedora (2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686 ro root=UUID=f384f63d-a312-4840-b7c7-c1102fd29857 quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686.img "quiet" is one parameter on my kernel line, I can add others by just typing them one after another, separated by blank spaces, onto the end of that line. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines