Best Methods for T-Shooting Boot-up Problems in Ubuntu???

[Urmas]

Anywho, I d-loaded and am now burning a copy of the newest Ubuntu release. I'm planning on doing a fresh install of Ubuntu in just a few minutes.

Darnation! I'm late as usual! Did you read my post about using the "alternate install" CD? (When this thread got pruned, it landed on the new thread.) Alternate shmalternate... it's the good old text-based installer... the "Desktop CD" just came along with Dapper. See, I found this in "Desktop CD known issues list":

If you are installing from the Desktop CD on a system that already has one or more RAID arrays or LVM volume groups set up, you must disable the arrays (sudo /etc/init.d/mdadm stop; sudo mdadm --stop --scan) and volume groups (sudo vgchange -a n) before starting the installer.

And...

The alternate install CD allows you to perform certain specialist installations of Ubuntu. It provides for the following situations:* creating pre-configured OEM systems;* setting up automated deployments;* upgrading from older installations without network access;* LVM and/or RAID partitioning;* installing GRUB to a location other than the Master Boot Record;* installs on systems with less than about 192MB of RAM.

Annnnd: you are using the standard, "386" kernel, right? You could try the "k7" (specifically for AMD professors ) or the "686" kernel. Wonder what kernel Frank is using...Improve performance in Ubuntu(Good stuff all over... but see "Pick the kernel that's right for your processor". Don't know how it's now, but the breezy era "386" kernels couldn't handle 1 GB of RAM.) Edited August 12, 2006 by Urmas

[Frank Golden]

Darnation! I'm late as usual! Did you read my post about using the "alternate install" CD? (When this thread got pruned, it landed on the new thread.) Alternate shmalternate... it's the good old text-based installer... the "Desktop CD" just came along with Dapper. See, I found this in "Desktop CD known issues list": And... Annnnd: you are using the standard, "386" kernel, right? You could try the "k7" (specifically for AMD professors ) or the "686" kernel. Wonder what kernel Frank is using...Improve performance in Ubuntu(Good stuff all over... but see "Pick the kernel that's right for your processor". Don't know how it's now, but the breezy era "386" kernels couldn't handle 1 GB of RAM.)

Hi Urmas, My laptop has a Core Duo processor so the first thing I do on a fresh installis change to the 686 smp to take advantage of my two "professors".After everything is up and running I go to Synaptic and remove all traces of the 386'sto keep update from updating them. I wish they would make available a 686 smp Desktop CD.Note that Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS is still using the 2.6.15 kernel when Linux as a wholeis using 2.6.16 or even 2.6.17 (Edgy)Off to play with those improvement tweaks. Wish me luck! Edited August 12, 2006 by Frank Golden

[V.T. Eric Layton]

I went to bed at about 6:30AM this morning and had to get up and 10AM, so I'm tired right now.The install went OK for Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS. From then on everything went to sh*t. After installing Automatix and my chosen apps and restoring my /home from backup and doing a few other Gnome customizations, I found that a lot of things are buggy as **** within Ubuntu. It was never like that before. I won't be able to get Ubuntu back to the way I had it. I should have just left it the way it was and dealt with it. The first cold start this AM locked up. 2nd boot went fine. FF and T-Bird are acting buggy as ****. My profiles must have gotten corrupted or something.On top of all this, I trashed my backups somehow while restoring them, so now I don't have any usable backups. I'm pretty disgusted with the whole thing... computers in general. I'm SOOOOOOOO tired of reinstalling and recustomizing OS's... Windows and Linux! I think I need to walk away from this for a while or I'm going to put my fist through this monitor.

[Frank Golden]

I went to bed at about 6:30AM this morning and had to get up and 10AM, so I'm tired right now.The install went OK for Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS. From then on everything went to sh*t. After installing Automatix and my chosen apps and restoring my /home from backup and doing a few other Gnome customizations, I found that a lot of things are buggy as **** within Ubuntu. It was never like that before. I won't be able to get Ubuntu back to the way I had it. I should have just left it the way it was and dealt with it. The first cold start this AM locked up. 2nd boot went fine. FF and T-Bird are acting buggy as ****. My profiles must have gotten corrupted or something.On top of all this, I trashed my backups somehow while restoring them, so now I don't have any usable backups. I'm pretty disgusted with the whole thing... computers in general. I'm SOOOOOOOO tired of reinstalling and recustomizing OS's... Windows and Linux! I think I need to walk away from this for a while or I'm going to put my fist through this monitor.

Eric, don't get discouraged. Have you tried EasyUbuntu it's supposed to be better (safer)that Automatix. http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/This link doesn't work at this time, I think the site is down. Try it later. Edited August 12, 2006 by Frank Golden

[Bruno]

Sure he will not give up Frank . . . . . Eric just goes through what we all have been trough . . . and he has to learn that easy miracles like "Auomatics" are not always the best and most stable way to achieve things. I think we should advise him to set up a base system . . . stable and lean . . . then he can make an image of what he has so far . . . and then go through the "normal" process of adding stuff and configuring things one by one . . . keep making images as long as the system is stable . . . . That way he can save himself a lot of work.Eric is a true geek . . . and will not be discouraged by the first drop of rain falling in his vodka ;) Bruno

[Frank Golden]

Sure he will not give up Frank . . . . . Eric just goes through what we all have been trough . . . and he has to learn that easy miracles like "Auomatics" are not always the best and most stable way to achieve things. I think we should advise him to set up a base system . . . stable and lean . . . then he can make an image of what he has so far . . . and then go through the "normal" process of adding stuff and configuring things one by one . . . keep making images as long as the system is stable . . . . That way he can save himself a lot of work.Eric is a true geek . . . and will not be discouraged by the first drop of rain falling in his vodka ;) Bruno

I agree that is why I use partimage so much. It gives me a chance to go backeasily. I lost track of how many times I have restored with partimage. I have becomequite adept at using it (run the protocols and commands from memory). Eric use partimage and save your base install to your 80 GB drive. You will need a fat32 partition or a ext3partition on drive. Partimage will not write to a NTFS partition. You will notcorrupt this image when you use it.I presently have three images on the shared Fat32 partition of of my dual boot drive.the earliest one is an image of my Ubuntu install right after updating and changing to 686smp kernel. The second was a few days ago after I had run for awhile with no problems. The last image today after updating to 6.06.1 and running a while.I can boot to the SystemRescueCD that has partimage on it and create an exactbyte by byte image of my Ubuntu install and store it on my Fat32 partition in 10 minutes.Restore takes less time than that. See my guide at UbuntuForumshttp://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php...491#post1322491 Edited August 12, 2006 by Frank Golden

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Hey guys,Thanks for the vote of confidence. You're both correct in your assessment. I won't give up on this. I just needed a short break. I went out to a friend's house this evening and some other old friends dropped in for a visit. We ended up having pizza and beer (I had coffee) and playing poker for about 5 hours. I won $52... not a bad evening. I just got home. It's about 1AM here. I'm planning on getting out of Windows in just a minute and reinstalling Ubuntu again. Your advice about starting a minimal set up (staying away from Automatix for now) and then using PartImage is a good idea. I have 60Gig on the other drive that's already formated in FAT, so PartImage will work fine. Plus, it only images the used sectors, so it can be zipped down to a relatively small size. I believe this is the way I'll do it this time.Let me tell you about my other adventures the past 24 hours. I installed the Ubuntu and the PCLinuxOS on the 120Gig drive in 5 partitions. Everything went well except, as stated above, Ubuntu got all flakey on me (not necessarily its fault). Also, since it was all flakey, I got pissed and installed Debian Sarge over the top of it this morning.The Debian install went fine, in spite of the fact that for some things, I didn't have a clue what I was doing. Debian, as I may have mentioned here or there somewhere, is not for the inexperienced GNU/Linux user. I will admit that a lot more things made sense to me this time than they did two weeks ago when I tried Debian. I guess I'm learning some stuff.Anyway, when I got home this evening neither Debian nor PCLinuxOS would boot. They both gave me kernel panic warnings and error notices about this or that file being corrupted. I don't know what caused this. The Debian was working OK this morning. I actually got my desktop setup and everything before shutting down. I'm gonna' scratch them both off the drive for now... maybe try them both again one day. I'll leave the partitions on the drive just in case.So, those are the updates. I'm rebooting right now to re-install Ubuntu again. See you guys sometime soon...~Eric

[Bruno]

Hi Eric . . . . . a small quick question: What format are you ( is Ubuntu ) making your partitions ?? ( Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS or other ? ) I'm asking this because it looks like you have filesystem corruption. Bruno

[V.T. Eric Layton]

ext3

[Frank Golden]

ext3

Maybe it's time for Darik's Boot & Nuke. Do a "low level" format. Actually one pass withDarik will write all 0's to every sector of your drive. I bet Bruno is about to suggest something along those lines. Could it be that remanents of old installs are corruptingyour drives? I don't know HDD's have an element of Black Magic for me.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

I'm beginning to think that something in my Ubuntu just doesn't like something on my system, and I suspect either RAID or my video card. I dunno... *shrugging*Today's 1st cold start locked up at "Loading Hardware Drivers". :(I think I'm just going to set it up and live with it this way. I need a working OS on this system for work, etc. My Windows is currently a very minimal installation... no software apps, no updates, etc. I was hoping to get Ubuntu back to the way I had it so I wouldn't actually have to configure Windows any further. Sometime in the next year, I plan on building a new box. If I can operate with what I have until then, that'll be fine. Again, I dunno...

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Darnation! I'm late as usual! Did you read my post about using the "alternate install" CD? (When this thread got pruned, it landed on the new thread.) Alternate shmalternate... it's the good old text-based installer... the "Desktop CD" just came along with Dapper. See, I found this in "Desktop CD known issues list": And... Annnnd: you are using the standard, "386" kernel, right? You could try the "k7" (specifically for AMD professors ) or the "686" kernel. Wonder what kernel Frank is using...Improve performance in Ubuntu(Good stuff all over... but see "Pick the kernel that's right for your processor". Don't know how it's now, but the breezy era "386" kernels couldn't handle 1 GB of RAM.)

Urmas, Thanks for the tips. I installed the standard 386 kernel because I don't have a K7 series processor. I have an Athlon XP processor, similar name but totally different than Athlon K7s or Durons.As far as my RAID array goes, I'm not installing on that array. I'm installing on a Primary EIDE drive. I wouldn't think the existing RAID would have any effect, but whaddo I know?

[Urmas]

I don't have a K7 series processor. I have an Athlon XP processor, similar name but totally different than Athlon K7s or Durons.

Yup, I know...

k7 – This kernel is recommended for a computer with a Athlon or newer AMD CPU. New 64 bit AMD cpus can use it as well if you have the 32 bit version of Ubuntu installed. Installing this kernel with may improve performance.

:)Says Eric:

and playing poker for about 5 hours. I won $52... not a bad evening.

They call you Doc, right? $52 sounds like an internal dual layer DVD burner for back-ups. Edited August 14, 2006 by Urmas

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Yup, I know...

Yes, I read this somewhere after I posted my reply to you. Can I upgrade a kernel without trashing my current setup?

[Urmas]

Can I upgrade a kernel without trashing my current setup?

Yup... Picking the Kernel thats Right for You.But, for Pete's sake... do the PartImage thing first... I don't care HOW... just do it!

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Hmm... that looks simple enough.

[Bruno]

Maybe you could post us the output of this command:

 $ dmesg

There is a tiny little chance we find something interesting in there ;) Bruno

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Maybe you could post us the output of this command:

 $ dmesg

There is a tiny little chance we find something interesting in there ;) Bruno

What the ****? I'm game for anything about now. :)Here we go:

[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.15-26-386 (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 3 02:52:00 UTC 2006[17179569.184000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable)[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff8000 (ACPI data)[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fff8000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS)[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)[17179569.184000] 127MB HIGHMEM available.[17179569.184000] 896MB LOWMEM available.[17179569.184000] found SMP MP-table at 000fb930[17179569.184000] On node 0 totalpages: 262128[17179569.184000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0[17179569.184000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0[17179569.184000] Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31[17179569.184000] HighMem zone: 32752 pages, LIFO batch:7[17179569.184000] DMI 2.3 present.[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000fa9c0[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7 0x00000010 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fff0000[17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7 0x00000011 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fff0030[17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7 0x00000009 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fff00c0[17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA VIA_K7 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000[17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808[17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)[17179569.184000] Processor #0 6:8 APIC version 16[17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])[17179569.184000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 3, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.[17179569.184000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs[17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information[17179569.184000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bec00000)[17179569.184000] Built 1 zonelists[17179569.184000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash[17179569.184000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)[17179569.184000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)[17179569.184000] Initializing CPU#0[17179569.184000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)[17179569.184000] Detected 2088.310 MHz processor.[17179569.184000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource[17179569.184000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25[17179569.308000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)[17179569.312000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)[17179569.344000] Memory: 1028680k/1048512k available (1976k kernel code, 19168k reserved, 606k data, 288k init, 131008k highmem)[17179569.344000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.[17179569.424000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4180.67 BogoMIPS (lpj=8361346)[17179569.424000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized[17179569.424000] SELinux: Disabled at boot.[17179569.424000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512[17179569.424000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000[17179569.424000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000[17179569.424000] CPU: CLK_CTL MSR was 6003d22f. Reprogramming to 2003d22f[17179569.424000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)[17179569.424000] CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)[17179569.424000] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000420 00000000 00000000 00000000[17179569.424000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)[17179569.424000] CPU: AMD Athlon™ XP 2600+ stepping 01[17179569.424000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.[17179569.424000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.[17179569.424000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.[17179569.440000] checking if image is initramfs... it is[17179569.960000] Freeing initrd memory: 6840k freed[17179569.972000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found![17179569.976000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs[17179569.976000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1[17179570.120000] NET: Registered protocol family 16[17179570.120000] EISA bus registered[17179570.120000] ACPI: bus type pci registered[17179570.120000] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdaf1, last bus=1[17179570.120000] PCI: Using configuration type 1[17179570.120000] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20051216[17179570.124000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled[17179570.124000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing[17179570.128000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)[17179570.128000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)[17179570.128000] PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by vt8235 PM[17179570.128000] PCI quirk: region 0400-040f claimed by vt8235 SMB[17179570.128000] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0[17179570.128000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT][17179570.132000] ACPI: Power Resource [uRP1] (off)[17179570.132000] ACPI: Power Resource [uRP2] (off)[17179570.132000] ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)[17179570.136000] ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)[17179570.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)[17179570.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)[17179570.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)[17179570.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)[17179570.136000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 © Adam Belay[17179570.136000] pnp: PnP ACPI init[17179570.140000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices[17179570.140000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP[17179570.140000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing[17179570.140000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report[17179570.140000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0[17179570.140000] IO window: disabled.[17179570.140000] MEM window: dde00000-dfefffff[17179570.140000] PREFETCH window: cdd00000-ddcfffff[17179570.140000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64[17179570.140000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)[17179570.140000] audit(1155561048.140:1): initialized[17179570.140000] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages[17179570.140000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1[17179570.140000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)[17179570.140000] Initializing Cryptographic API[17179570.140000] io scheduler noop registered[17179570.140000] io scheduler anticipatory registered[17179570.140000] io scheduler deadline registered[17179570.140000] io scheduler cfq registered[17179570.140000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...[17179570.496000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found[17179570.508000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12[17179570.508000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12[17179570.508000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1[17179570.508000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled[17179570.508000] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A[17179570.508000] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A[17179570.508000] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A[17179570.508000] 00:09: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A[17179570.512000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize[17179570.512000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2[17179570.512000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx[17179570.512000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice[17179570.512000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0[17179570.512000] EISA: Detected 0 cards.[17179570.512000] NET: Registered protocol family 2[17179570.532000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0[17179570.552000] IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)[17179570.552000] TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)[17179570.552000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)[17179570.552000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)[17179570.552000] TCP reno registered[17179570.552000] TCP bic registered[17179570.552000] NET: Registered protocol family 1[17179570.552000] NET: Registered protocol family 8[17179570.552000] NET: Registered protocol family 20[17179570.552000] Using IPI Shortcut mode[17179570.552000] ACPI wakeup devices:[17179570.552000] PCI0 USB1 USB2 USB3 EHCI UAR1 AC9 MC9 ILAN SLPB[17179570.552000] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)[17179570.552000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed[17179570.600000] vga16fb: initializing[17179570.600000] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000[17179570.720000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25[17179570.720000] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device[17179571.820000] Capability LSM initialized[17179572.368000] SCSI subsystem initialized[17179572.372000] ACPI: bus type scsi registered[17179572.372000] libata version 1.20 loaded.[17179572.372000] sata_promise 0000:00:0d.0: version 1.03[17179572.372000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 169[17179572.372000] sata_promise PATA port found[17179572.388000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8822200 ctl 0xF8822238 bmdma 0x0 irq 169[17179572.388000] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8822280 ctl 0xF88222B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 169[17179572.388000] ata3: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8822300 ctl 0xF8822338 bmdma 0x0 irq 169[17179572.592000] ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)[17179572.592000] scsi0 : sata_promise[17179572.796000] ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)[17179572.796000] scsi1 : sata_promise[17179572.960000] ata3: dev 0 cfg 00:0040 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003 88:407f 93:600b[17179572.960000] ata3: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 160086528 sectors: LBA[17179572.960000] ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133[17179572.960000] sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0xd0000, handle=0x00000000[17179572.960000] scsi2 : sata_promise[17179572.960000] Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y080L0 Rev: YAR4[17179572.960000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05[17179572.964000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods[17179572.968000] SCSI device sda: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)[17179572.968000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back[17179572.968000] SCSI device sda: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)[17179572.968000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back[17179572.968000] sda: sda1 sda2 [17179573.000000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda[17179573.168000] VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1[17179573.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A]: no GSI[17179573.168000] PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:11.1, from 255 to 15[17179573.168000] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6[17179573.168000] VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later[17179573.168000] VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1[17179573.168000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio[17179573.168000] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA[17179573.168000] Probing IDE interface ide0...[17179573.584000] hda: ST3120814A, ATA DISK drive[17179574.032000] hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive[17179574.088000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14[17179574.096000] Probing IDE interface ide1...[17179574.960000] hdc: CREATIVECD-RW RW121032E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive[17179575.744000] hdd: CREATIVE CD5233E-N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive[17179575.800000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15[17179575.808000] hda: max request size: 1024KiB[17179575.852000] hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)[17179575.876000] hda: cache flushes supported[17179575.876000] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 [17179575.952000] hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA[17179575.952000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20[17179575.960000] hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)[17179576.288000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs[17179576.292000] usbcore: registered new driver hub[17179576.292000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3[17179576.292000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177[17179576.292000] PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.0, from 11 to 1[17179576.292000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller[17179576.292000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1[17179576.292000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 177, io base 0x0000c400[17179576.292000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found[17179576.292000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected[17179576.396000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1 -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177[17179576.396000] PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.1, from 5 to 1[17179576.396000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller[17179576.396000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2[17179576.396000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 177, io base 0x0000c800[17179576.396000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found[17179576.396000] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected[17179576.500000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177[17179576.500000] PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.2, from 5 to 1[17179576.500000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller[17179576.500000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3[17179576.500000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 177, io base 0x0000cc00[17179576.500000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found[17179576.500000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected[17179576.604000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177[17179576.604000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: EHCI Host Controller[17179576.604000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4[17179576.604000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 177, io mem 0xdfffef00[17179576.604000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004[17179576.604000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found[17179576.604000] hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected[17179576.772000] Attempting manual resume[17179576.792000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds[17179576.792000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.[17179583.644000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0[17179585.364000] gameport: EMU10K1 is pci0000:00:0a.1/gameport0, io 0xec00, speed 1242kHz[17179585.364000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 © Dave Jones[17179585.372000] agpgart: Detected VIA KT400/KT400A/KT600 chipset[17179585.380000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000[17179585.380000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5[17179585.384000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4[17179585.500000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185[17179585.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 193[17179585.860000] irda_init()[17179585.860000] NET: Registered protocol family 23[17179586.048000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12[17179586.104000] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.[17179586.112000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185[17179586.112000] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 13:06:38 PDT 2006[17179586.160000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1[17179586.272000] logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 79[17179586.444000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M[17179586.460000] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077[17179586.472000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 201[17179586.472000] 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html[17179586.472000] 0000:00:08.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0001d800. Vers LK1.1.19[17179586.508000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.[17179586.508000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA][17179586.560000] parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 840C[17179586.728000] input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input2[17179586.904000] ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide[17179587.048000] hdb: No disk in drive[17179587.048000] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output[17179587.144000] hdb: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm[17179587.916000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 201[17179588.052000] hdb: No disk in drive[17179589.068000] hdb: No disk in drive[17179589.072000] NET: Registered protocol family 17[17179589.872000] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).[17179589.932000] Adding 2048248k swap on /dev/hda1. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2048248k[17179590.040000] EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal[17179590.200000] md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27[17179590.200000] md: bitmap version 4.39[17179590.716000] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com[17179591.036000] cdrom: open failed.[17179591.600000] hdb: No disk in drive[17179591.936000] cdrom: open failed.[17179591.936000] cdrom: open failed.[17179592.944000] NET: Registered protocol family 10[17179592.944000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions[17179592.944000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver[17179594.852000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds[17179594.852000] EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal[17179594.852000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.[17179595.004000] NTFS driver 2.1.25 [Flags: R/O MODULE].[17179595.064000] NTFS volume version 3.1.[17179600.556000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF][17179600.556000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB][17179600.556000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [sLPB][17179600.652000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found[17179600.680000] pcc_acpi: loading...[17179603.128000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present[17179604.200000] agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.[17179604.200000] agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode[17179604.200000] agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode[17179605.336000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver[17179605.580000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)[17179605.580000] apm: overridden by ACPI.

[Bruno]

I see nothing alarming in there . . . . . Are you in for another command ?

$ sudo lshw > lshw.txt

This will put a textfile in your /home called lshw.txt Or you can do "sudo lshw -html > lshw.html" now you get a fancy formatted html output . . . . . . but I am not sure how it will copy and paste to the forum software. BrunoPeachy is our hardware guru . . . . we will ask him to have a look at the dmesg and lshw output.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

I'll post the output from that command here now, but be aware that I just upgraded my kernel (successfully, I might add ), so all these Ubuntu bootup bugaboos might just be fixed. Won't know till the next cold start for sure though. I modified your piped destination to put the file in /home/vtel57/vtel57_private/temporary. Other than that change, here's the output:

ericsbane02	description: Desktop Computer	product: MS-6590	vendor: MSI	version: 1.0	serial: 00000000	width: 32 bits	capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3	configuration: chassis=desktop  *-core	   description: Motherboard	   product: MS-6590	   vendor: MSI	   physical id: 0	   version: 1.0	   serial: 00000000	   slot: PCI2	 *-firmware		  description: BIOS		  vendor: American Megatrends Inc.		  physical id: 0		  version: Version 07.00T (04/02/01)		  size: 64KB		  capacity: 192KB		  capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification	 *-cpu		  description: CPU		  product: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+		  vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]		  physical id: 4		  bus info: cpu@0		  version: 6.8.1		  slot: Socket-A		  size: 2083MHz		  capacity: 3GHz		  width: 32 bits		  clock: 166MHz		  capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow		*-cache:0			 description: L1 cache			 physical id: 5			 slot: Internal Cache			 size: 128KB			 capacity: 1MB			 capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified		*-cache:1			 description: L2 cache			 physical id: 6			 slot: Internal Cache			 size: 256KB			 capacity: 1MB			 capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified	 *-memory		  description: System memory		  physical id: 1		  size: 1010MB	 *-pci		  description: Host bridge		  product: VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge		  vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.		  physical id: e0000000		  bus info: pci@00:00.0		  version: 00		  width: 32 bits		  clock: 66MHz		  resources: iomemory:e0000000-e7ffffff		*-pci			 description: PCI bridge			 product: VT8235 PCI Bridge			 vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.			 physical id: 1			 bus info: pci@00:01.0			 version: 00			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 66MHz			 capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list		   *-display				description: VGA compatible controller				product: NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x]				vendor: nVidia Corporation				physical id: 0				bus info: pci@01:00.0				version: a1				size: 128MB				width: 32 bits				clock: 66MHz				capabilities: vga bus_master cap_list				configuration: driver=nvidia				resources: iomemory:de000000-deffffff iomemory:d0000000-d7ffffff irq:185		*-communication UNCLAIMED			 description: Communication controller			 product: HSF 56k HSFi Modem			 vendor: Conexant			 physical id: 7			 bus info: pci@00:07.0			 version: 01			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 33MHz			 capabilities: bus_master cap_list			 resources: iomemory:dffe0000-dffeffff ioport:dc00-dc07 irq:10		*-network			 description: Ethernet interface			 product: 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]			 vendor: 3Com Corporation			 physical id: 8			 bus info: pci@00:08.0			 logical name: eth0			 version: 00			 serial: 00:60:08:05:92:5e			 size: 100MB/s			 capacity: 100MB/s			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 33MHz			 capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegociation			 configuration: autonegociation=on broadcast=yes driver=3c59x driverversion=LK1.1.19 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.100 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s			 resources: ioport:d800-d83f irq:201		*-multimedia:0			 description: Multimedia audio controller			 product: SB Live! EMU10k1			 vendor: Creative Labs			 physical id: a			 bus info: pci@00:0a.0			 version: 07			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 33MHz			 capabilities: bus_master cap_list			 configuration: driver=EMU10K1_Audigy			 resources: ioport:d400-d41f irq:193		*-input			 description: Input device controller			 product: SB Live! MIDI/Game Port			 vendor: Creative Labs			 physical id: a.1			 bus info: pci@00:0a.1			 version: 07			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 33MHz			 capabilities: bus_master cap_list			 configuration: driver=Emu10k1_gameport			 resources: ioport:ec00-ec07		*-multimedia:1			 description: Multimedia audio controller			 product: CM8738			 vendor: C-Media Electronics Inc			 physical id: c			 bus info: pci@00:0c.0			 version: 10			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 33MHz			 capabilities: bus_master cap_list			 configuration: driver=C-Media PCI			 resources: ioport:d000-d0ff irq:185		*-storage			 description: RAID bus controller			 product: PDC20376 (FastTrak 376)			 vendor: Promise Technology, Inc.			 physical id: d			 bus info: pci@00:0d.0			 logical name: scsi2			 logical name: scsi0			 logical name: scsi1			 version: 02			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 66MHz			 capabilities: storage bus_master cap_list emulated scsi-host			 configuration: driver=sata_promise			 resources: ioport:e800-e83f ioport:e400-e40f ioport:e000-e07f iomemory:dffff000-dfffffff iomemory:dffc0000-dffdffff irq:169		   *-disk				description: SCSI Disk				product: Maxtor 6Y080L0				vendor: ATA				physical id: 0.0.0				bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0				logical name: /dev/sda				version: YAR4				serial: Y3JA9B6E				size: 76GB				capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos				configuration: ansiversion=5			  *-volume:0				   description: HPFS/NTFS partition				   physical id: 1				   bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,1				   logical name: /dev/sda1				   capacity: 19GB				   capabilities: primary bootable			  *-volume:1				   description: W95 Ext'd (LBA) partition				   physical id: 2				   bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,2				   logical name: /dev/sda2				   capacity: 56GB				   capabilities: primary		*-usb:0			 description: USB Controller			 product: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller			 vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.			 physical id: 10.2			 bus info: pci@00:10.2			 version: 80			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 33MHz			 capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list			 configuration: driver=uhci_hcd			 resources: ioport:cc00-cc1f irq:177		   *-usbhost				product: UHCI Host Controller				vendor: Linux 2.6.15-26-k7 uhci_hcd				physical id: 1				bus info: usb@3				logical name: usb3				version: 2.06				capabilities: usb-1.10				configuration: driver=hub maxpower=0mA slots=2 speed=12.0MB/s		*-usb:1			 description: USB Controller			 product: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller			 vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.			 physical id: 10.1			 bus info: pci@00:10.1			 version: 80			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 33MHz			 capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list			 configuration: driver=uhci_hcd			 resources: ioport:c800-c81f irq:177		   *-usbhost				product: UHCI Host Controller				vendor: Linux 2.6.15-26-k7 uhci_hcd				physical id: 1				bus info: usb@2				logical name: usb2				version: 2.06				capabilities: usb-1.10				configuration: driver=hub maxpower=0mA slots=2 speed=12.0MB/s		*-usb:2			 description: USB Controller			 product: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller			 vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.			 physical id: 10			 bus info: pci@00:10.0			 version: 80			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 33MHz			 capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list			 configuration: driver=uhci_hcd			 resources: ioport:c400-c41f irq:177		   *-usbhost				product: UHCI Host Controller				vendor: Linux 2.6.15-26-k7 uhci_hcd				physical id: 1				bus info: usb@1				logical name: usb1				version: 2.06				capabilities: usb-1.10				configuration: driver=hub maxpower=0mA slots=2 speed=12.0MB/s		*-usb:3			 description: USB Controller			 product: USB 2.0			 vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.			 physical id: 10.3			 bus info: pci@00:10.3			 version: 82			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 33MHz			 capabilities: ehci bus_master cap_list			 configuration: driver=ehci_hcd			 resources: iomemory:dfffef00-dfffefff irq:177		   *-usbhost				product: EHCI Host Controller				vendor: Linux 2.6.15-26-k7 ehci_hcd				physical id: 1				bus info: usb@4				logical name: usb4				version: 2.06				capabilities: usb-2.00				configuration: driver=hub maxpower=0mA slots=6 speed=480.0MB/s		*-isa UNCLAIMED			 description: ISA bridge			 product: VT8235 ISA Bridge			 vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.			 physical id: 11			 bus info: pci@00:11.0			 version: 00			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 33MHz			 capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list		*-ide			 description: IDE interface			 product: VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE			 vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.			 physical id: 11.1			 bus info: pci@00:11.1			 version: 06			 width: 32 bits			 clock: 33MHz			 capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list			 configuration: driver=VIA_IDE			 resources: ioport:fc00-fc0f irq:255		   *-ide:0				description: IDE Channel 0				physical id: 0				bus info: ide@0				logical name: ide0				clock: 33MHz			  *-disk				   description: ATA Disk				   product: ST3120814A				   vendor: Seagate				   physical id: 0				   bus info: ide@0.0				   logical name: /dev/hda				   version: 3.AAE				   serial: 3LS003DS				   size: 111GB				   capacity: 111GB				   capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm partitioned partitioned:dos				   configuration: mode=udma5 smart=on				 *-volume:0					  description: Linux swap / Solaris partition					  physical id: 1					  bus info: ide@0.0,1					  logical name: /dev/hda1					  capacity: 2000MB					  capabilities: primary nofs				 *-volume:1					  description: Linux filesystem partition					  physical id: 2					  bus info: ide@0.0,2					  logical name: /dev/hda2					  capacity: 14GB					  capabilities: primary bootable				 *-volume:2					  description: Linux filesystem partition					  physical id: 3					  bus info: ide@0.0,3					  logical name: /dev/hda3					  capacity: 14GB					  capabilities: primary				 *-volume:3					  description: Extended partition					  physical id: 4					  bus info: ide@0.0,4					  logical name: /dev/hda4					  capacity: 80GB					  capabilities: extended partitioned partitioned:extended			  *-floppy				   description: IDE Direct-access device				   product: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI				   physical id: 1				   bus info: ide@0.1				   logical name: /dev/hdb				   version: 03.H				   capabilities: packet atapi removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy				 *-disc					  physical id: 0					  logical name: /dev/hdb		   *-ide:1				description: IDE Channel 1				physical id: 1				bus info: ide@1				logical name: ide1				clock: 33MHz			  *-cdrom:0				   product: CREATIVECD-RW RW121032E				   physical id: 0				   bus info: ide@1.0				   logical name: /dev/hdc				   capabilities: packet			  *-cdrom:1				   description: IDE CD-ROM				   product: CREATIVE CD5233E-N				   physical id: 1				   bus info: ide@1.1				   logical name: /dev/hdd				   version: 0.20				   capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio				   configuration: mode=udma2				 *-disc					  physical id: 0					  logical name: /dev/hdd

[Bruno]

I'll post the output from that command here now, but be aware that I just upgraded my kernel (successfully, I might add ), so all these Ubuntu bootup bugaboos might just be fixed.

Crossing all my fingers and toes BrunoPS: Changed the "quote" to "code" for easier reading of the output of lshw

[Bruno]

Okay I did send a PM to Peachy and asked him to have a look at the hardware output you posted . . . . To be complete can you additionally post the result of the next few commands ?

$ cat /proc/devices$ cat /proc/dma$ cat /proc/interrupts$ cat /proc/ioports$ cat /proc/meminfo$ cat /proc/modules$ cat /proc/pci$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi

;) Bruno

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Okay I did send a PM to Peachy and asked him to have a look at the hardware output you posted . . . . To be complete can you additionally post the result of the next few commands ?

$ cat /proc/devices$ cat /proc/dma$ cat /proc/interrupts$ cat /proc/ioports$ cat /proc/meminfo$ cat /proc/modules$ cat /proc/pci$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi

;) Bruno

How's this for service?

vtel57@ericsbane02:~$ cat /proc/devices /proc/dma /proc/interrupts /proc/ioports /proc/meminfo /proc/modules /proc/pci /proc/scsi/scsiCharacter devices:  1 mem  2 pty  3 ttyp  4 /dev/vc/0  4 tty  4 ttyS  5 /dev/tty  5 /dev/console  5 /dev/ptmx  6 lp  7 vcs 10 misc 13 input 14 sound 21 sg 29 fb 99 ppdev116 alsa128 ptm136 pts180 usb189 usb_device195 nvidiaBlock devices:  1 ramdisk  2 fd  3 ide0  8 sd  9 md 22 ide1 65 sd 66 sd 67 sd 68 sd 69 sd 70 sd 71 sd128 sd129 sd130 sd131 sd132 sd133 sd134 sd135 sd253 device-mapper254 mdp 3: parport0 4: cascade		   CPU0  0:	 948337	IO-APIC-edge  timer  1:	   3574	IO-APIC-edge  i8042  7:		  2	IO-APIC-edge  parport0  8:		  3	IO-APIC-edge  rtc  9:		  0   IO-APIC-level  acpi 12:	  54136	IO-APIC-edge  i8042 14:	  27627	IO-APIC-edge  ide0 15:	 134539	IO-APIC-edge  ide1169:	   2671   IO-APIC-level  libata177:		  0   IO-APIC-level  uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, ehci_hcd:usb4185:	 359659   IO-APIC-level  CMI8738-MC6, nvidia193:	   1966   IO-APIC-level  EMU10K1201:	   3595   IO-APIC-level  eth0NMI:		  0LOC:	 948199ERR:		  0MIS:		  00000-001f : dma10020-0021 : pic10040-0043 : timer00050-0053 : timer10060-006f : keyboard0070-0077 : rtc0080-008f : dma page reg00a0-00a1 : pic200c0-00df : dma200f0-00ff : fpu0170-0177 : ide101f0-01f7 : ide002f8-02ff : serial0376-0376 : ide10378-037a : parport0037b-037f : parport003c0-03df : vga+03f6-03f6 : ide003f8-03ff : serial0400-040f : 0000:00:11.0  0400-0407 : vt596_smbus0778-077a : parport00800-087f : 0000:00:11.0  0800-0803 : PM1a_EVT_BLK  0804-0805 : PM1a_CNT_BLK  0808-080b : PM_TMR  0810-0815 : ACPI CPU throttle  0820-0823 : GPE0_BLK0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1c400-c41f : 0000:00:10.0  c400-c41f : uhci_hcdc800-c81f : 0000:00:10.1  c800-c81f : uhci_hcdcc00-cc1f : 0000:00:10.2  cc00-cc1f : uhci_hcdd000-d0ff : 0000:00:0c.0  d000-d0ff : CMI8738-MC6d400-d41f : 0000:00:0a.0  d400-d41f : EMU10K1d800-d83f : 0000:00:08.0dc00-dc07 : 0000:00:07.0e000-e07f : 0000:00:0d.0  e000-e07f : sata_promisee400-e40f : 0000:00:0d.0  e400-e40f : sata_promisee800-e83f : 0000:00:0d.0  e800-e83f : sata_promiseec00-ec07 : 0000:00:0a.1  ec00-ec07 : emu10k1-gpfc00-fc0f : 0000:00:11.1  fc00-fc07 : ide0  fc08-fc0f : ide1MemTotal:	  1034644 kBMemFree:		194828 kBBuffers:		 23868 kBCached:		 557328 kBSwapCached:		  0 kBActive:		 323820 kBInactive:	   445720 kBHighTotal:	  131008 kBHighFree:		  160 kBLowTotal:	   903636 kBLowFree:		194668 kBSwapTotal:	 2048248 kBSwapFree:	  2048248 kBDirty:			   4 kBWriteback:		   0 kBMapped:		 255276 kBSlab:			49660 kBCommitLimit:   2565568 kBCommitted_AS:   460924 kBPageTables:	   1576 kBVmallocTotal:   114680 kBVmallocUsed:	 27816 kBVmallocChunk:	84468 kBbinfmt_misc 13192 1 - Live 0xf8ee2000ppdev 10052 0 - Live 0xf8ede000cpufreq_userspace 6816 0 - Live 0xf8e76000cpufreq_stats 6912 0 - Live 0xf8e6d000freq_table 5152 1 cpufreq_stats, Live 0xf8e70000cpufreq_powersave 2240 0 - Live 0xf8e60000cpufreq_ondemand 8104 0 - Live 0xf8e64000cpufreq_conservative 9256 0 - Live 0xf8e44000video 16644 0 - Live 0xf8e67000tc1100_wmi 7172 0 - Live 0xf8e48000sony_acpi 5900 0 - Live 0xf8d5b000pcc_acpi 12736 0 - Live 0xf8e5b000hotkey 11812 0 - Live 0xf8e57000dev_acpi 11652 0 - Live 0xf8e53000container 4928 0 - Live 0xf8d5e000button 6992 0 - Live 0xf8d52000acpi_sbs 20556 0 - Live 0xf8e4c000battery 10308 1 acpi_sbs, Live 0xf8dc6000ac 5508 1 acpi_sbs, Live 0xf8d58000i2c_acpi_ec 5440 1 acpi_sbs, Live 0xf8d55000nls_utf8 2560 1 - Live 0xf8d49000ntfs 114288 1 - Live 0xf8da9000nls_iso8859_1 4544 1 - Live 0xf8d4f000nls_cp437 6208 1 - Live 0xf8d4c000vfat 14976 1 - Live 0xf89c0000fat 56028 1 vfat, Live 0xf8d9a000ext2 74312 2 - Live 0xf8d86000dm_mod 63640 1 - Live 0xf8d75000ipv6 287456 22 - Live 0xf8dca000md_mod 76244 0 - Live 0xf8d61000lp 12612 0 - Live 0xf8c2d000af_packet 25224 2 - Live 0xf8c45000tsdev 8320 0 - Live 0xf8b91000ide_floppy 21184 0 - Live 0xf8baa000snd_emu10k1_synth 8384 0 - Live 0xf8b86000snd_emux_synth 40320 1 snd_emu10k1_synth, Live 0xf8c3a000nvidia 4553140 12 - Live 0xf90dc000i2c_viapro 9364 0 - Live 0xf8a5e000snd_seq_virmidi 8640 1 snd_emux_synth, Live 0xf8b82000snd_seq_midi_emul 8000 1 snd_emux_synth, Live 0xf8a9d000i2c_core 23168 3 i2c_acpi_ec,nvidia,i2c_viapro, Live 0xf8b8a000floppy 65924 0 - Live 0xf8b98000snd_seq_dummy 4164 0 - Live 0xf8a30000snd_seq_oss 37632 0 - Live 0xf8b6e000via_ircc 32660 0 - Live 0xf8b79000snd_seq_midi 9888 0 - Live 0xf8a2c000snd_seq_midi_event 8064 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi, Live 0xf888b000snd_seq 58832 9 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event, Live 0xf8b42000irda 217980 1 via_ircc, Live 0xf8bb40003c59x 48040 0 - Live 0xf8b61000mii 6528 1 3c59x, Live 0xf89d3000pcspkr 2564 0 - Live 0xf896f000shpchp 49312 0 - Live 0xf8b53000parport_pc 38340 1 - Live 0xf8b2a000parport 39560 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc, Live 0xf8b37000serio_raw 8132 0 - Live 0xf89d0000psmouse 40132 0 - Live 0xf8a42000crc_ccitt 2496 1 irda, Live 0xf89be000pci_hotplug 30916 1 shpchp, Live 0xf89f6000snd_emu10k1 133476 1 snd_emu10k1_synth, Live 0xf8aa3000snd_ac97_codec 99296 1 snd_emu10k1, Live 0xf8a62000snd_ac97_bus 2688 1 snd_ac97_codec, Live 0xf8865000snd_cmipci 37024 0 - Live 0xf8a21000snd_pcm_oss 56352 0 - Live 0xf8a33000snd_mixer_oss 20800 1 snd_pcm_oss, Live 0xf89ef000snd_util_mem 5184 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1, Live 0xf88a6000via_agp 10560 1 - Live 0xf89ab000agpgart 37072 2 nvidia,via_agp, Live 0xf89c5000snd_pcm 96772 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss, Live 0xf89d6000snd_page_alloc 11592 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm, Live 0xf89a7000snd_opl3_lib 11968 1 snd_cmipci, Live 0xf896b000snd_timer 27204 4 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib, Live 0xf89b1000snd_hwdep 10272 3 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_opl3_lib, Live 0xf895e000snd_mpu401_uart 8896 1 snd_cmipci, Live 0xf895a000snd_rawmidi 27552 4 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1,snd_mpu401_uart, Live 0xf8963000snd_seq_device 9548 9 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi, Live 0xf8956000emu10k1_gp 4224 0 - Live 0xf888e000snd 60068 16 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device, Live 0xf8997000gameport 17032 3 snd_cmipci,emu10k1_gp, Live 0xf88a0000soundcore 11040 1 snd, Live 0xf889c000sg 40352 0 - Live 0xf8946000evdev 10432 1 - Live 0xf8898000ext3 148296 2 - Live 0xf8971000jbd 65684 1 ext3, Live 0xf890e000ide_generic 1792 0 - Live 0xf8867000ehci_hcd 36104 0 - Live 0xf8904000uhci_hcd 35472 0 - Live 0xf88fa000usbcore 138948 3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd, Live 0xf8923000ide_cd 36228 0 - Live 0xf88f0000cdrom 41504 1 ide_cd, Live 0xf88e4000ide_disk 19520 6 - Live 0xf8892000via82cxxx 9988 0 [permanent], Live 0xf887f000generic 5444 0 - Live 0xf887c000sd_mod 20864 3 - Live 0xf8884000sata_promise 12676 4 - Live 0xf886a000libata 84176 1 sata_promise, Live 0xf88ce000scsi_mod 145736 4 sg,sd_mod,sata_promise,libata, Live 0xf88a9000thermal 14088 0 - Live 0xf8877000processor 27208 1 thermal, Live 0xf886f000fan 5124 0 - Live 0xf8862000capability 5256 0 - Live 0xf885f000commoncap 7616 1 capability, Live 0xf882e000vga16fb 14344 1 - Live 0xf883d000vgastate 10304 1 vga16fb, Live 0xf8825000fbcon 44640 72 - Live 0xf8831000tileblit 3072 1 fbcon, Live 0xf8802000font 8640 1 fbcon, Live 0xf8821000bitblit 6592 1 fbcon, Live 0xf881e000softcursor 2752 1 bitblit, Live 0xf8804000cat: /proc/pci: No such file or directoryAttached devices:Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00  Vendor: ATA	  Model: Maxtor 6Y080L0   Rev: YAR4  Type:   Direct-Access					ANSI SCSI revision: 05

[Peachy]

On first glance I can't see any error message that would trigger what you are experiencing. You say you have a RAID setup? How is this done? From the BIOS level?Have you run any hard drive diagnostics so we can rule out bad sectors?

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Yes, the RAID configuration is handled during POST on this system. When first installing an OS on the drive it requires the installation of software drivers (Promise Fast Track 376). And yes, I have run diagnostics on this drive and the IDE drive. No troubles at all. Be it known though (I had to check to see which thread we were on), I'm NOT having any problems with my RAID drive. I keep Win XP on it. The Win XP problems are not drive related. They're crappy Windows related. The bootup troubles I'm having on cold starts w/ Ubuntu Linux is on my primary IDE drive, a brand new Seagate 120Gig (also checked with diagnostics... no problems). Anywho... we're all hoping that this afternoon's upgrade to a different kernel may solve that problem.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

You know, I'm reading a lot of nasty stuff about 3rd party Nvidia drivers and Xorg/Gnome failure. I wonder... the first install of Ubuntu, I used the nvidia.glx and manually reconfigured the xserver/Xorg myself to get it to work. All went well. However, shortly thereafter I used Automatix to reinstall the nvidia.glx when I was installing all the other crap from that script application. That's about the time I developed the bootup problems on the first install.Every install since: 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, I used Automatix to again install the nvidia.glx. I had the bootup problem on each of those iterations immediately, I think. On this, the 5th install, I again used the Ubuntu Universe/Multiverse repos to install nvidia.glx and manually reconfigured xserver/Xorg. My first boot this AM did NOT lockup. However, I thought it was because the system had been on for about twenty minutes already while I was trashing Windows.I wonder... yes I do. Who knows where Automatix is getting the nvidia.glx from. I guess I could look through the repositories that it activated in my list to see what's there, but since I didn't install nvidia.glx from there this time... I wonder. If I bootup with no troubles in the morning, is it because if the clean nvidia.glx or is it because of the new K7 kernel? I guess I won't really give a D*** as long as it does bootup with no troubles. It would have been nice to know though.Ah well... Fedora updates almost finished, then I'm outta' here.Later...~Eric

[Bruno]

Hi EricI don't know about the Automatix nvidia drivers . . . but I generally prefer to get the drivers from Nvidia's website and use their installer ( read Here, the tip is a bit outdated because these days the installer includes an extra tool/script to configure the /etc/X11/xorg.conf for you . . . I do not like that script because it messes up that config file, so I still edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf myself ).Sometimes if their newest driver gives issues I remove it and take a previous version ( see Archive ) Bruno

[Urmas]

What happens when you "cold boot" to Fedora?

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Believe it or not, Bruno, that's EXACTLY what the Mike Harris from RedHat says to NOT do. See THIS posting.Myeh... who knows? *shrugging*Anyway, cold start bootup FAILED @ Loading hardware drivers again today. A kill and restart went fine... booted right up!I'm curious to see how Fedora handles the cold start problem. I'm going to boot into that OS first thing tomorrow.

[Bruno]

LOL . . . we did indeed do exactly the same troubleshooting here on the forum . . it starts around here:http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...st&p=188683 ( A nice read of some complicated "remote controlled" troubleshooting )What I think Mike Harris wants to say is that once you made a choice: using the RH packed or the NV packed drivers you should stick to that supplier . . . . because else you get the wrong linking to libglx ( see thread above )A default Linux distro install does not yet include the libglx.so . . . so from a fresh start you can go either way . . . but once you go with the Automatix packed you should indeed only use the Automatix packed ones. Bruno