Help on disabling IRQ sharing

[Praveen Kumar]

Hello -

I am a new user to GNU/Hurd and I would like to contribute to the 
development of it. I have downloaded the Debian port (K9) ISOs. I have 
did a cross install of GNU/Hurd, updated the GRUB configuration and 
tried to boot into GNU/Hurd with single user mode (-s switch).

But the system hangs after loading the RTL8139 and VIA-Rhine drivers. My 
motherboard uses nVidia nForce chipset, that has internal audio and 
ethernet. As I was aware that nForce MCP (internal ethernet) will not 
work under GNU/Hurd, I have plugged in a RTL8139 ethernet adapter to my 
free PCI slot. Also, googling showed me that GNU Mach will not boot if 
IRQs are shared. Looked on some BIOS messages, I see that IRQs are 
shared. How do I disable IRQ sharing? The BIOS is an Award BIOS. I 
googled and didn't find answers. I can't resist the temptation to get 
GNU/Hurd up and running.

I am sorry if the question is so trivial. I searched the mail archives. 
There are lot of spams and I didn't get relavent answer. Please bear 
with me.

Thanks -
Praveen.

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