Slow bootup with new kernel

Pho · 09-07-2004, 07:09 PM

I recently compiled a new kernel (2.6.6) before I was using 2.6.6-1 from apt (which worked fine).

With my own kernel it's running very slow on bootup; taking a couple of minutes more than it did (1ghz machine) and generally using the system is slower. In my kernel I compiled support for bootsplash which requires a few things to be compiled into the kernel rather than modules, any ideas as to why its running so slowly?

I made a ramdisk and tried using that, however on bootup it still showed their was no ramdisk being found, as you can see in my startup log below.

Any ideas?

Code:

Linux version 2.6.6 (root@linux) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-3)) #1 Mon Sep 6 02:56:56 BST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.2 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 VIA694                                    ) @ 0x000f78b0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 VIA694 MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 VIA694 MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=346 splash=silent root=/dev/hdb6
bootsplash: silent mode.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 1000.004 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Memory: 516280k/524224k available (1773k kernel code, 7180k reserved, 716k data, 156k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 1978.36 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU:     After generic identify, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU:     After vendor identify, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU:     After all inits, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000020
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 999.0449 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 199.0889 MHz.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 79k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb240, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
ACPI: IRQ11 SCI: Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 02): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fbd10
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xbd40, dseg 0xf0000
PnPBIOS: 15 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 15 recorded by driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0806000, size 16384k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0eb9
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xe1807000
fb1: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
Applying VIA southbridge workaround.
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:07.5, from 9 to 11
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19: looking for picture.... found (1024x768, 20789 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 91x38
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: SAMSUNG SV2042H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG SV2044D, ATA DISK drive
hdc: DVD-ROM BDV316B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39865392 sectors (20411 MB) w/426KiB Cache, CHS=39549/16/63
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 >
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 39862368 sectors (20409 MB) w/472KiB Cache, CHS=39546/16/63
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 < p5 p6 >
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
reiserfs: using ordered data mode
Reiserfs journal params: device hdb6, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
reiserfs: checking transaction log (hdb6) for (hdb6)
Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Adding 530104k swap on /dev/hdb5.  Priority:-1 extents:1
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usbcore: registered new driver usbkbd
drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
NTFS driver 2.1.8 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-5336  Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd8000000
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: port 0x01f0 already claimed by ide0
VP_IDE: port 0x0170 already claimed by ide1
VP_IDE: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 10, io base 0000d400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#2)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: irq 10, io base 0000d800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.5 to 64
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe800, 00:50:22:94:71:97, IRQ 11
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19: looking for picture.... found (1024x768, 19600 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 1 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19: looking for picture.... found (1024x768, 19600 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 2 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19: looking for picture.... found (1024x768, 19600 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 3 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19: looking for picture.... found (1024x768, 19600 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 4 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19: looking for picture.... found (1024x768, 19600 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 5 changed to on
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c033a2a0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode

RunLevelZero · 09-10-2004, 10:41 PM

From what I can initially tell... Your disks are not loading the DMA. That will be a big performance hit. You will be running at ata33 not 100 or 133 which you most likely can. This part here doesn't look right to me but I'm not sure of your hardware.

VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: port 0x01f0 already claimed by ide0
VP_IDE: port 0x0170 already claimed by ide1
VP_IDE: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)

Did you enable DMA by default in the kernel config? Did you totally start from scratch on the kernel recompile? You can use debian's and modify it to your needs. It's always on /boot and it's normally called something like config-kernelversion if memory serves me right. Just copy that to /usr/src/linux as .config ---- cp /boot/config-kernelversion /usr/src/linux/.config --- Then run make menuconfig and reconfigure your kernel and see what you get out of that. Are you sure the kernel built right? The new kernel can build broken... Did you use the make-kpkg tool available in debian? That is the best way to create a new kernel because it will build a .deb for you and put it in /usr/src. You can always try to use the boot flag of " pci=noacpi" and see if that does anything for you. I just can't exactly tell. Also check your /var/log/messages for errors.... the file is huge so just check the last 100 lines or so -- tail -n 100 /var/log/messages -- you can increase the line count from 100 to whatever -- tail -n 150 /var/log/messages -- will return 150 lines. Hope this helps a little.

Pho · 09-11-2004, 09:03 PM

Thanks for the reply. My kernel is setup fine I think; I had someone else lookover it first anyway. I also compiled a 2.6.8 kernel with bootsplash patches, it appears to work a bit better but still not as fast as it was I don't think.

Here is my messages file:

Code:

Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xbd40, dseg 0xf0000
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: PnPBIOS: 13 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 13 recorded by driver
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 3
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.2[D] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.3[D] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 4
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.5[C] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0806000, size 3072k
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0eb9
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: fb1: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Initializing Cryptographic API
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Applying VIA southbridge workaround.
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash: scanning last 2MB of initrd for signature
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19-spock-0.1: looking for picture.... silentjpeg size 19730 bytes, found (1024x768, 19600 bytes, v3).
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hda: SAMSUNG SV2042H, ATA DISK drive
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hdb: SAMSUNG SV2044D, ATA DISK drive
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hdc: DVD-ROM BDV316B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hdd: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Using anticipatory io scheduler
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hda: 39865392 sectors (20411 MB) w/426KiB Cache, CHS=39549/16/63
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel:  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 >
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hdb: max request size: 128KiB
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hdb: 39862368 sectors (20409 MB) w/472KiB Cache, CHS=39546/16/63
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel:  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 < p5 p6 >
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 2
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 8
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 20
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: RAMDISK: Loading 3744 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^Hdone.
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 1
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: VP_IDE: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ReiserFS: hdb6: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ReiserFS: hdb6: using ordered data mode
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ReiserFS: hdb6: journal params: device hdb6, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ReiserFS: hdb6: checking transaction log (hdb6)
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ReiserFS: hdb6: Using r5 hash to sort names
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ReiserFS: hdb6: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ReiserFS: hdb6: using ordered data mode
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ReiserFS: hdb6: journal params: device hdb6, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ReiserFS: hdb6: checking transaction log (hdb6)
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ReiserFS: hdb6: Using r5 hash to sort names
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Adding 530104k swap on /dev/hdb5.  Priority:-1 extents:1
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbkbd
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: NTFS driver 2.1.15 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-5336  Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd8000000
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.2[D] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 3, io base 0000d400
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.3[D] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2)
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: irq 3, io base 0000d800
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.5[C] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe800, 00:50:22:94:71:97, IRQ 11
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19-spock-0.1: looking for picture.... found (1024x768, 19600 bytes, v3).
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash: status on console 1 changed to on
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19-spock-0.1: looking for picture.... found (1024x768, 19600 bytes, v3).
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash: status on console 2 changed to on
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19-spock-0.1: looking for picture.... found (1024x768, 19600 bytes, v3).
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash: status on console 3 changed to on
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19-spock-0.1: looking for picture.... found (1024x768, 19600 bytes, v3).
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash: status on console 4 changed to on
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19-spock-0.1: looking for picture.... found (1024x768, 19600 bytes, v3).
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: bootsplash: status on console 5 changed to on
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0347f60(lo)
Sep 12 03:17:26 linux kernel: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Sep 12 03:17:31 linux lpd[1789]: restarted
Sep 12 03:17:32 linux kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
Sep 12 03:17:32 linux kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Sep 12 03:17:36 linux xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (unreadable) 
Sep 12 03:17:37 linux xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID (unreadable) 
Sep 12 03:17:51 linux kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
Sep 12 03:17:51 linux kernel: apm: overridden by ACPI.
Sep 12 03:17:58 linux kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Sep 12 03:17:58 linux kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
Sep 12 03:17:58 linux kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
Sep 12 03:37:23 linux -- MARK --
Sep 12 03:57:23 linux -- MARK --

I can't tell any problems in there (I'm not 'that' good in linux so to speak).

Thanks again.