Problem installing Ubuntu 8

All is good until I click install then I tried the noapic option as suggested by the software and it installed but now when I start up the following problem occurs

STARTING UP…

[ 31.869 160] .. MP-BIOS BUG: 8254 TIMER NOT CONNECTED TO I0-APIC
[ 32.048 161] KERNEL PANIC – NOT SYNCING: I0-APIC + TIMER DOSEN’T WORK! BOOT WITH APIC = DEBUG AND SEND A REPORT
THEN TRY BOOTING WITH THE `NOAPIC’ OPTION

Howe can I set it up to boot with the `noapic’ option
or is their an alternative way
I tried changes on my bios but I’m not to sure what I need to change

A similar error occurs when I try to install fedora 8 & xandros & suse

THANK YOU

Ooops, bit of trouble there by the looks of it.

Can you describe what hardware you have? CPU, harddisks and their interface, SATA, IDE, RAID, etc.

Mons

+4600 2 core amd
gigabite mb
1 X 80g hdd ata (win xp)
1 X 200g hdd sata (linx)
1 X 400g hdd sata (storage)
1 X 250g hdd sata (storage)
1 X 360g hdd sata (storage)
2 X nvidia 7 searis
1 X ata dvd rewriter
3g ram not to sure what make

"noapic". How can I add these parameters to the GRUB boot loader so that it auto loads every time

Very strange this. APIC is the sytem that handles interrupts, so sounds like a hardware problem, but I guess your Windows is working (? ).
Have you tried to boot with the live CD?

Adding options permanently is normally done in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file which means you have to boot with a CD and access your harddrive that way. In order to boot with the CD you might then have to enter noapic during boot of the CD.

If the CD boots without having to enter this noapic option, I would guess you have somehow installed the wrong kernel during installation...