[lug] Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7, then hang

[Peter Hutnick]

Andrew Gilmore said:

> I assume this is a hardware problem, but is there any possibility that
> it is actually a kernel problem?

What a great question.

Have you tried running that system on a Linux-on-a-floppy or CDROM? 
(Don't forget to create some disk activity . . .)

How about downloading Linus' kernel tree and building a new kernel from a
clean tree?

-Peter