Booting Cassandra XFCE

[Euphony]

I've recently decided to switch over to Linux after building my new computer.
After inserting the DVD and tried to start up Kassandra, I get the following error



It basically just keeps repeating until I turn my computer off

I currently have 1 IDE 80GB (hda) and 2 SATA2 160GB(sda and sdb). However, if I disconnect the old 80GB harddrive, it works fine. But that kind of defeats the purpose since I want to have my OS on my smaller drive and use the other two for storage. I'm sure I've probably connected the drives wrong or something. Any ideas?

[Boo]

Is this a new motherboard?
have you had this setup with the hardware before?
this could be a bios issue, maybe it can only use ide or sata.
check for a bios update.
does this happen before you get to the mint grub boot screen?

you could try the boot option irqpoll.

[Euphony]

Yes, new motherboard, new everything (except my old 80GB harddrive)

The error occurs after the boot screen

[Euphony]

I did a bit of googling and found some people having similar problems on the Ubuntu forums. Most of them managed to fix it using the irqpoll option

Being new to using Linux in general, how do I go about adding irqpoll to the kernel line?

[Boo]

at the boot screen hit the F6 key (boot options) and add/enter irqpoll at the end.

hit enter and it will boot.

[Euphony]

No luck with that. I just ended up buying a new harddrive

[Husse]

Not that it matters any more but it says I/O error on device fd0....
fd0 is the floppy...