I thought my CD was bad after the INIT failed at boot, but a new CD and a new version doesn't help. Knoppix has worked before on my machine but i installed a PCMCIA-to-PCI bridge, and now it just stalls at boot.

here's the error:

Setting paths... Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

(I don't know how to find out what that IRQ is, if that's relevant.)

The boot continues until the INIT command stalls. nothing for many, many minutes, then an error message saying INIT failed.

Any ideas? Thanks much in advance