BT2 Hangs During Boot on Gateway MT6840 Notebook

[seag33k]

I just bought a Gateway MT6840 Notebook and I've been unable to boot Backtrack 2. The computer pauses at:

Uniform CD-ROM Driver Rev 3.20
hda: lost interupt

Then in continues but hangs at:

looking for data directory

Any ideas?

Thanks!!!

[shamanvirtuel]

try this at boot time

boot : bt irqpoll

and try bt nocd

[seag33k]

Thanks!

bt irqpoll let me boot in just fine. I am not sure exactly how that fixed it, but thanks again!!!

[theprez98]

Thanks!

bt irqpoll let me boot in just fine. I am not sure exactly how that fixed it, but thanks again!!!
Press the "I believe" button. ;)

[kurt_kabayan]

maybe your notebook is freak
hehehheh
just kidding bro

[g1ic7h]

seag33k,
I too wanted to know what irqpoll did, this is what I found...

"With that said, the irqpoll option basically toggles a handler in the
kernel irq.c (I think) source which basically says, "hey! I just
received an IRQ request out here on the bus, and I don't know who it's
from and what I should do with it." So, the kernel will poll all it's
IRQ handling routines to find someone to service it."

cited from:
hXXps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2005-September/048179.html

just thought I throw that out.

peace