I have been successfully using kernel 2.4.26 (with Slack 9.1) for some time now. I decided it was time to update to 2.6.6. For some reason, my boot hangs every time. The last thing it displays during boot is this:
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ^Icurrent capacity is 234375000 sectors (120000 MB)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ^Inative capacity is 234441648 sectors (120034 MB)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hdb: max request size: 128KiB
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

I thought maybe it was fsck-ing the disk or something, so I let it sit for about 3 hours. No luck. I have been trolling around the net for anything that might help, to no avail. I have looked through every log that I could find and nothing seems to stand out as an error that would cause a system hang. I have recompiled the kernel with different options, but all with the same result. I kept my 2.4.26 kernel in place, so I can still boot to that with no problems, but I would like to figure out what is going on here.

Here is the syslog for my (failed) boot:

May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Linux version 2.6.6 (root@Section9) (gcc version 3.2.3) #7 SMP Sun May 23 20:02:03 EDT 2004
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff74000 (usable)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001ff74000 - 000000001ff76000 (ACPI NVS)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001ff76000 - 000000001ff97000 (ACPI data)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001ff97000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fecf0000 - 00000000fecf1000 (reserved)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 130932
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Normal zone: 126836 pages, LIFO batch:16
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Processor #1 15:2 APIC version 20
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Built 1 zonelists
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Slackware ro root=342
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Detected 2792.971 MHz processor.
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 5505.02 BogoMIPS
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 09
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1463.09 usecs.
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: task migration cache decay timeout: 2 msecs.
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ESR value before enabling vector: 00000040
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: masked ExtINT on CPU#1
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 5570.56 BogoMIPS
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 09
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: cpu_sibling_map[0] = 1
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: cpu_sibling_map[1] = 0
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Using local APIC timer interrupts.
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: calibrating APIC timer ...
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ..... CPU clock speed is 2792.0474 MHz.
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ..... host bus clock speed is 199.0462 MHz.
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Brought up 2 CPUs
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb_pci_register BEGIN
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: probed SDR SGRAM 131072k videoram
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: mapped 16384k videoram
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=12) Memory=324.00 Mhz, System=290.00 MHz
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: 1 chips in connector info
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: - chip 1 has 2 connectors
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: * connector 0 of type 2 (CRT) : 2300
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: * connector 1 of type 3 (DVI-I) : 3201
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Starting monitor auto detection...
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 1) ... not found
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 2) ... found TMDS panel
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 3) ... found CRT display
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 4) ... not found
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 2) ... found TMDS panel
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 3) ... found CRT display
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Parsing EDID data for panel info
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Setting up default mode based on panel info
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: ATI Radeon NH SDR SGRAM 128 MB
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: radeonfb_pci_register END
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: vesafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0xf0000000
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Simple Boot Flag value 0x87 read from CMOS RAM was invalid
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: mdacon: MDA with 8K of memory detected.
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Console: switching consoles 1-16 to mono MDA-2 80x25
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hStart = 1328, hEnd = 1440, hTotal = 1688
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: vStart = 1025, vEnd = 1028, vTotal = 1066
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: h_total_disp = 0x9f00d2^I hsync_strt_wid = 0xe052a
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: v_total_disp = 0x3ff0429^I vsync_strt_wid = 0x30400
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: pixclock = 9259
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: freq = 10800
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: post div = 0x1
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: fb_div = 0x60
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ppll_div_3 = 0x10060
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: lvds_gen_cntl: 08000008
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Using anticipatory io scheduler
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hda: WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0, ATA DISK drive
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hdb: WDC WD300BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hdc: LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hdd: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-248F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ^Icurrent capacity is 234375000 sectors (120000 MB)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ^Inative capacity is 234441648 sectors (120034 MB)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hdb: max request size: 128KiB
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: mdacon: MDA with 8K of memory detected.
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Console: switching consoles 1-16 to mono MDA-2 80x25
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4091 buckets, 32728 max) - 300 bytes per conntrack
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: Software Suspend has malfunctioning SMP support. Disabled
May 23 20:07:15 Section9 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.

And it just stops. I have looked into everything that appears to be an error/warning, but nothing looks serious (as in would just hang the system). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, because I am stumped. I can post anything else that might help. I don't even know where the source of the problem is, and I don't want to make you wade through my entire system setup. Thanks for everything (LinuxQuestions is great!)

Phile

Now I can't say that I know anything about this (having never seen this particular error before, although I've heard of people having various errors under 2.6.6, which is one reason I'm still running 2.6.5), but I have compiled several 2.6 series kernels, and so let's see if logic gets us any further with this.

Here's what's new to me:
-- this whole "Section9" business. What the heck is "Section9"? Perhaps a section of the kernel config menu? Let's see.

CD-ing to /usr/src/linux in a root terminal and running make menuconfig... counting down the main menu 9 times takes me to.... File Systems. Which makes sense, so I guess File Systems is "Section9". So what have we got in this section that might be relevant (other than everything)? Nothing on first glance.

Now, my bootlog looks like this:
From this, I can see that all that "max request size" and sector counts are all normal output (since my kernel boots, and yours doesn't, but they both have this output). The fact that you have "Section9 kernel:" before yours and I don't may be something to do with 2.6.6 as opposed to 2.6.5, but at the moment it seems irrelevant to the problem.

So maybe the boot isn't hanging on the drive count-and-mount, but is hanging on what comes after-- which on my system is USB detection. I seem to have heard of a lot of people having problems with 2.6.6 and USB, so that's also making sense.

Do you have any USB devices connected? Does the system boot when they are not connected? Or, if they are not connected, does the system boot when they are? What USB support did you compile into the kernel (either directly or as modules)?

So far, that's all I'm coming up with, but hopefully it's a lead in the right direction.

Can you post your machine specs and config for for the Kernel?

Also, is this a from-scratch 2.6.6 or did you use the old config file?
Did you do anything above and beyond the old config file or just use as is?
Did you use gconfig?
If so, did you read every option before deciding? It has a great summary of each option.
Lastly, did you make install or copy and paste the data into the /boot sector?

I'll look at it for you since I just compiled my 2.6.6 and had to recompile twice to get various things working.

(Sorry, at work right now - will post config file, etc. when I get home)

Let's see, addressing questions....

Section9 is my machine name, so it just prefixes all of that stuff. No real reason except that I have disk space to burn, so why not log it thousands of times?

I thought about the USB being the problem. I checked and rechecked (and will check again later) all of the USB settings, but I have only the most basic USB support enabled (compiled into the kernel - not as a module). One part of the cable for my wireless receiver (for my keyboard and mouse) plugs in to the USB port, the other into the keyboard port, so I figured I needed at least some basic USB support, but nothing fancy. My 2.4 kernel had no problems with this setup - but it was just vanilla kernel, so maybe there is something included with (or missing from) the kernel on the slack cd that I failed to enable. Is there any way to get the config file for the default kernel that ships with the cd? I checked my hd, but I couldn't locate anything like that. Perhaps I will do some searching for that today.

Anyway, this is my first kernel compile, so I am not using an old config file, just straight menuconfig. This being my first time, I have spent hours online looking into all of the settings and deciding whether or not I needed it (took me forever to figure out why my ATI Radeon wasn't working properly, but that at least is fixed now). Frankly, I don't mind having to spend so much time reading about that stuff. I seriously have a good time at it (that is why I switched to Slack). Anyway, thanks for your help, sorry I couldn't post more info (as soon as I get back to the machine).

Some machine specs:

Pentium 4 - 2.3Ghz (or some large number in that area)
512Mb RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 - Dual monitor setup
Creative SbLive (the silly dell version with the diff chipset, does not work with ALSA - emu101k)
Dual boot Slack 9.1 (kernel 2.4.26 and trying for 2.6.6) and Windows XP on separate hd's.
48x DVD drive and 48x CDRW drive
I am sure there is other important info that I am forgetting (I have the specs for too many machines rattling around up there and, as a result, I can't even remember one of them perfectly).

~Phile

hmmmm, right off the bat, I see that you have a single processor machine and it looks like SMP is trying to start. Did you compile SMP into the Kernel? You should do this only if you have multiple processors.

You don't have to search; you only have to turn on "Show hidden files" in your file manager of choice . The .config is either in /usr/src/old_kernel_version (not /usr/src/linux, as that should be a symlink to the current kernel that you just compiled), or in /boot, probably as .config.old

I'm wondering if USB shouldn't be a module. For one thing, I have it as a module, and it works fine. For another thing, I've seen other former modules (most notably ALSA, second only to the ide-scsi=>ide-cd issue) be kind of a PITA when compiled directly into the kernel (as ALSA now is-- and though it works, I always get "no soundcard detected" errors at the beginning of the boot sequence, until the soundcard is loaded at the end of the boot sequence). While generally the troublesome former-modules-now-directly-compiled are not major issues, USB most certainly is, and maybe it doesn't play well when directly compiled like that.

Just something to consider on the way home from work .

Turn off ACPI in the kernel config and recompile your kernel, worked for me. It would always hang at the IDE detection and say interrupt lost and the same thing hdb: max request size: 128KiB. and it would say hdb: interrupt lost. I beleive that ACPI is the problem.. Try turning that off in your kernel config options and recompile.

Great idea Mint567 but I wouldn't turn ACPI off and recompile yet. This is a drastic step if you aren't going to recompile for any other reason. In LILO, you can add an append line--->

append = "pci=noacpi"
and it will do the same thing. I had to do this because mine hung up and the error was

"hdc: lost interrupt"

This does not appear to be the same problem but try the append line to see.

Thank you for all of your replies. I must admit, I am chomping at the bit now to get home and try them out. Now I have some direction to move in. Hopefully all will be up and running soon. Thanks

Ok. I hit the same wall. I recompiled with USB as a module and the sound system (OSS) as a module and I turned off SMP (I guess I boffed the setup on that one). I popped the append="pci=noacpi" line into lilo. All of it gets me no progress. It stalls at the exact same point. (and, yes, I did them each independently, just to be rigorous about this whole thing). Here you go with my current Syslog: (and I will stick my .config in the next post - too long to post here)

May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Linux version 2.6.6 (root@Section9) (gcc version 3.2.3) #10 Mon May 24 17:39:18 EDT 2004
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff74000 (usable)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001ff74000 - 000000001ff76000 (ACPI NVS)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001ff76000 - 000000001ff97000 (ACPI data)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001ff97000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fecf0000 - 00000000fecf1000 (reserved)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 130932
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Normal zone: 126836 pages, LIFO batch:16
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Built 1 zonelists
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Slackware ro root=342 pci=noacpi
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Detected 2794.079 MHz processor.
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 5521.40 BogoMIPS
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 09
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb_pci_register BEGIN
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: probed SDR SGRAM 131072k videoram
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: mapped 16384k videoram
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=12) Memory=324.00 Mhz, System=290.00 MHz
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: 1 chips in connector info
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: - chip 1 has 2 connectors
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: * connector 0 of type 2 (CRT) : 2300
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: * connector 1 of type 3 (DVI-I) : 3201
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Starting monitor auto detection...
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 1) ... not found
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 2) ... found TMDS panel
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 3) ... found CRT display
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 4) ... not found
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 2) ... found TMDS panel
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: I2C (port 3) ... found CRT display
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Parsing EDID data for panel info
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Setting up default mode based on panel info
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb: ATI Radeon NH SDR SGRAM 128 MB
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: radeonfb_pci_register END
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: vesafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0xf0000000
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Simple Boot Flag value 0x87 read from CMOS RAM was invalid
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: mdacon: MDA with 8K of memory detected.
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Console: switching consoles 1-16 to mono MDA-2 80x25
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: hStart = 1328, hEnd = 1440, hTotal = 1688
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: vStart = 1025, vEnd = 1028, vTotal = 1066
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: h_total_disp = 0x9f00d2^I hsync_strt_wid = 0xe052a
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: v_total_disp = 0x3ff0429^I vsync_strt_wid = 0x30400
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: pixclock = 9259
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: freq = 10800
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: post div = 0x1
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: fb_div = 0x60
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: ppll_div_3 = 0x10060
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: lvds_gen_cntl: 08000008
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Using anticipatory io scheduler
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: hda: WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0, ATA DISK drive
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: hdb: WDC WD300BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: hdc: LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: hdd: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-248F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: ^Icurrent capacity is 234375000 sectors (120000 MB)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: ^Inative capacity is 234441648 sectors (120034 MB)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: hdb: max request size: 128KiB
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: mdacon: MDA with 8K of memory detected.
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: Console: switching consoles 1-16 to mono MDA-2 80x25
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4091 buckets, 32728 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
May 24 17:48:43 Section9 kernel: PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7


Sorry to make you sort through all of that, but I really just don't know what else to do. I am going to try to compile without USB / OSS / probably some other stuff just to see. Shot in the dark kind of thing. Any more advice?

Here you go, kind samaritans:

.config file:

#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
#
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y

#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y
CONFIG_STANDALONE=y
CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y

#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
# CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE is not set
# CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
# CONFIG_AUDIT is not set
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=15
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not set
# CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
# CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD is not set
CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y

#
# Processor type and features
#
CONFIG_X86_PC=y
# CONFIG_X86_ELAN is not set
# CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER is not set
# CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ is not set
# CONFIG_X86_SUMMIT is not set
# CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set
# CONFIG_X86_VISWS is not set
# CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH is not set
# CONFIG_X86_ES7000 is not set
# CONFIG_M386 is not set
# CONFIG_M486 is not set
# CONFIG_M586 is not set
# CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
# CONFIG_M586MMX is not set
# CONFIG_M686 is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMII is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMM is not set
CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y
# CONFIG_MK6 is not set
# CONFIG_MK7 is not set
# CONFIG_MK8 is not set
# CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set
# CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set
# CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set
# CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not set
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
# CONFIG_HPET_TIMER is not set
# CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC is not set
# CONFIG_SMP is not set
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
# CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC is not set
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=y
# CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set
# CONFIG_I8K is not set
# CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set
# CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set
CONFIG_X86_CPUID=y

#
# Firmware Drivers
#
# CONFIG_EDD is not set
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
CONFIG_MTRR=y
# CONFIG_EFI is not set
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y
# CONFIG_REGPARM is not set

#
# Power management options (ACPI, APM)
#
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y
# CONFIG_PM_DISK is not set

#
# ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support
#
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y
CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
# CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER is not set

#
# APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS Support
#
# CONFIG_APM is not set

#
# CPU Frequency scaling
#
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is not set

#
# Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA)
#
CONFIG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GOMMCONFIG is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=y
CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY_PROC=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
# CONFIG_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_MCA is not set
# CONFIG_SCx200 is not set

#
# Executable file formats
#
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y

#
# Device Drivers
#

#
# Generic Driver Options
#
# CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER is not set

#
# Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
#
# CONFIG_MTD is not set

#
# Parallel port support
#
CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=y
# CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_1284 is not set

#
# Plug and Play support
#
# CONFIG_PNP is not set

#
# Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_PARIDE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CARMEL is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
CONFIG_LBD=y

#
# ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
#
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y

#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
# CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set
CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=y

#
# IDE chipset support/bugfixes
#
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATIIXP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRIFLEX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CY82C693 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5520 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SVWKS is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set

#
# SCSI device support
#
# CONFIG_SCSI is not set

#
# Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, not IDE)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set

#
# Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)
#
# CONFIG_MD is not set

#
# Fusion MPT device support
#
# CONFIG_FUSION is not set

#
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support
#
# CONFIG_IEEE1394 is not set

#
# I2O device support
#
# CONFIG_I2O is not set

#
# Networking support
#
CONFIG_NET=y

#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
# CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set
CONFIG_UNIX=y
# CONFIG_NET_KEY is not set
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
# CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP=y
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set
# CONFIG_IP_MROUTE is not set
# CONFIG_ARPD is not set
# CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set
# CONFIG_INET_AH is not set
# CONFIG_INET_ESP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP is not set

#
# IP: Virtual Server Configuration
#
# CONFIG_IP_VS is not set
# CONFIG_IPV6 is not set
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
# CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG is not set

#
# IP: Netfilter Configuration
#
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=y
# CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_IRC=y
# CONFIG_IP_NF_TFTP is not set
# CONFIG_IP_NF_AMANDA is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_IPRANGE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_PKTTYPE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MARK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MULTIPORT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_RECENT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_ECN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_DSCP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_AH_ESP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LENGTH=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TTL=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_HELPER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_NETMAP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_SAME=y
# CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_LOCAL is not set
# CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_SNMP_BASIC is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_IRC=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ECN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_DSCP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MARK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_CLASSIFY=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ULOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPFILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_ARP_MANGLE=y
# CONFIG_IP_NF_RAW is not set

#
# SCTP Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)
#
# CONFIG_IP_SCTP is not set
# CONFIG_ATM is not set
# CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set
# CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q is not set
# CONFIG_DECNET is not set
# CONFIG_LLC2 is not set
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_X25 is not set
# CONFIG_LAPB is not set
# CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set
# CONFIG_ECONET is not set
# CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL is not set

#
# QoS and/or fair queueing
#
# CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set

#
# Network testing
#
# CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN is not set
# CONFIG_NETPOLL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER is not set
# CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set
# CONFIG_IRDA is not set
# CONFIG_BT is not set
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
# CONFIG_DUMMY is not set
# CONFIG_BONDING is not set
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_TUN is not set

#
# ARCnet devices
#
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set

#
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_MII=y
# CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL is not set
# CONFIG_SUNGEM is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set
# CONFIG_LANCE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL is not set

#
# Tulip family network device support
#
# CONFIG_NET_TULIP is not set
# CONFIG_AT1700 is not set
# CONFIG_DEPCA is not set
# CONFIG_HP100 is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCNET32 is not set
# CONFIG_AMD8111_ETH is not set
# CONFIG_ADAPTEC_STARFIRE is not set
# CONFIG_AC3200 is not set
# CONFIG_APRICOT is not set
# CONFIG_B44 is not set
# CONFIG_FORCEDETH is not set
# CONFIG_CS89x0 is not set
# CONFIG_DGRS is not set
# CONFIG_EEPRO100 is not set
CONFIG_E100=y
CONFIG_E100_NAPI=y
# CONFIG_FEALNX is not set
# CONFIG_NATSEMI is not set
# CONFIG_NE2K_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_8139CP is not set
CONFIG_8139TOO=y
CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO=y
# CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER is not set
# CONFIG_8139TOO_8129 is not set
# CONFIG_8139_OLD_RX_RESET is not set
# CONFIG_SIS900 is not set
# CONFIG_EPIC100 is not set
# CONFIG_SUNDANCE is not set
# CONFIG_TLAN is not set
# CONFIG_VIA_RHINE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set

Continuation (of .config):


#
# Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
#
# CONFIG_ACENIC is not set
# CONFIG_DL2K is not set
CONFIG_E1000=y
CONFIG_E1000_NAPI=y
# CONFIG_NS83820 is not set
# CONFIG_HAMACHI is not set
# CONFIG_YELLOWFIN is not set
# CONFIG_R8169 is not set
# CONFIG_SK98LIN is not set
# CONFIG_TIGON3 is not set

#
# Ethernet (10000 Mbit)
#
# CONFIG_IXGB is not set
# CONFIG_S2IO is not set

#
# Token Ring devices
#
# CONFIG_TR is not set

#
# Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
#
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set

#
# Wan interfaces
#
# CONFIG_WAN is not set
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set
# CONFIG_HIPPI is not set
# CONFIG_PLIP is not set
# CONFIG_PPP is not set
# CONFIG_SLIP is not set
# CONFIG_RCPCI is not set
# CONFIG_SHAPER is not set
# CONFIG_NETCONSOLE is not set

#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set

#
# Telephony Support
#
# CONFIG_PHONE is not set

#
# Input device support
#
CONFIG_INPUT=y

#
# Userland interfaces
#
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_TSDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG is not set

#
# Input I/O drivers
#
# CONFIG_GAMEPORT is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
# CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT is not set
# CONFIG_SERIO_CT82C710 is not set
# CONFIG_SERIO_PARKBD is not set
# CONFIG_SERIO_PCIPS2 is not set

#
# Input Device Drivers
#
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SUNKBD is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_LKKBD is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_NEWTON is not set
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
# CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE_INPORT is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE_LOGIBM is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE_PC110PAD is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE_VSXXXAA is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_MISC is not set

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set

#
# Serial drivers
#
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_ACPI is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=4
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED is not set

#
# Non-8250 serial port support
#
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256
# CONFIG_PRINTER is not set
# CONFIG_PPDEV is not set
# CONFIG_TIPAR is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set

#
# IPMI
#
# CONFIG_IPMI_HANDLER is not set

#
# Watchdog Cards
#
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
# CONFIG_HW_RANDOM is not set
# CONFIG_NVRAM is not set
# CONFIG_RTC is not set
# CONFIG_GEN_RTC is not set
# CONFIG_DTLK is not set
# CONFIG_R3964 is not set
# CONFIG_APPLICOM is not set
# CONFIG_SONYPI is not set

#
# Ftape, the floppy tape device driver
#
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
CONFIG_AGP=y
# CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set
CONFIG_AGP_ATI=y
# CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_AMD64 is not set
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL_MCH=y
# CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_EFFICEON is not set
CONFIG_DRM=y
# CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_GAMMA is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set
CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y
# CONFIG_DRM_I810 is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_I830 is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_MWAVE is not set
# CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER is not set
# CONFIG_HANGCHECK_TIMER is not set

#
# I2C support
#
CONFIG_I2C=y
# CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV is not set

#
# I2C Algorithms
#
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=y
# CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCF is not set

#
# I2C Hardware Bus support
#
# CONFIG_I2C_ALI1535 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_ALI1563 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_ALI15X3 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_AMD756 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_AMD8111 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_ELEKTOR is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_I801 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_I810 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_ISA is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_NFORCE2 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_PIIX4 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_PROSAVAGE is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SAVAGE4 is not set
# CONFIG_SCx200_ACB is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS5595 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS630 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS96X is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_VIA is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_VOODOO3 is not set

#
# Hardware Sensors Chip support
#
# CONFIG_I2C_SENSOR is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_ADM1021 is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_ASB100 is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_DS1621 is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_FSCHER is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_GL518SM is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_IT87 is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_LM75 is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_LM78 is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_LM80 is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_LM83 is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_LM85 is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_LM90 is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_VIA686A is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_W83781D is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_W83L785TS is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_W83627HF is not set

#
# Other I2C Chip support
#
# CONFIG_SENSORS_EEPROM is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_PCF8574 is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_PCF8591 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CORE is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_ALGO is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_BUS is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CHIP is not set

#
# Misc devices
#
# CONFIG_IBM_ASM is not set

#
# Multimedia devices
#
# CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set

#
# Digital Video Broadcasting Devices
#
# CONFIG_DVB is not set

#
# Graphics support
#
CONFIG_FB=y
# CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_IMSTT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
# CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_I810 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON_OLD is not set
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG=y
# CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set
# CONFIG_FB_KYRO is not set
# CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set

#
# Console display driver support
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FONTS is not set
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y

#
# Logo configuration
#
CONFIG_LOGO=y
# CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO is not set
# CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16 is not set
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y

#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=m

#
# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
#
# CONFIG_SND is not set

#
# Open Sound System
#
CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_BT878 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1=m
CONFIG_MIDI_EMU10K1=y
# CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ESSSOLO1 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO3 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ICH is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TVMIXER is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ALI5455 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_FORTE is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_RME96XX is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_AD1980 is not set

#
# USB support
#
CONFIG_USB=m
CONFIG_USB_DEBUG=y

#
# Miscellaneous USB options
#
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
# CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH is not set
# CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set

#
# USB Host Controller Drivers
#
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m
# CONFIG_USB_EHCI_SPLIT_ISO is not set
# CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT is not set
# CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD is not set
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=m

#
# USB Device Class drivers
#
# CONFIG_USB_AUDIO is not set
# CONFIG_USB_BLUETOOTH_TTY is not set
# CONFIG_USB_MIDI is not set
# CONFIG_USB_ACM is not set
# CONFIG_USB_PRINTER is not set
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE is not set

#
# USB Human Interface Devices (HID)
#
CONFIG_USB_HID=m
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
# CONFIG_HID_FF is not set
# CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV is not set

#
# USB HID Boot Protocol drivers
#
# CONFIG_USB_KBD is not set
# CONFIG_USB_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_USB_AIPTEK is not set
# CONFIG_USB_WACOM is not set
# CONFIG_USB_KBTAB is not set
# CONFIG_USB_POWERMATE is not set
# CONFIG_USB_MTOUCH is not set
# CONFIG_USB_XPAD is not set
# CONFIG_USB_ATI_REMOTE is not set

#
# USB Imaging devices
#
# CONFIG_USB_MDC800 is not set

#
# USB Multimedia devices
#
# CONFIG_USB_DABUSB is not set

#
# Video4Linux support is needed for USB Multimedia device support
#

#
# USB Network adaptors
#
# CONFIG_USB_CATC is not set
# CONFIG_USB_KAWETH is not set
# CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS is not set
# CONFIG_USB_RTL8150 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_USBNET is not set

#
# USB port drivers
#
# CONFIG_USB_USS720 is not set

#
# USB Serial Converter support
#
# CONFIG_USB_SERIAL is not set

#
# USB Miscellaneous drivers
#
# CONFIG_USB_EMI62 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_EMI26 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_TIGL is not set
# CONFIG_USB_AUERSWALD is not set
# CONFIG_USB_RIO500 is not set
# CONFIG_USB_LEGOTOWER is not set
# CONFIG_USB_LCD is not set
# CONFIG_USB_LED is not set
# CONFIG_USB_CYTHERM is not set
# CONFIG_USB_TEST is not set

#
# USB Gadget Support
#
# CONFIG_USB_GADGET is not set

#
# File systems
#
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=m
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
# CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y

#
# CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems
#
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
# CONFIG_ZISOFS is not set
CONFIG_UDF_FS=y

#
# DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
#
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_NTFS_RW is not set

#
# Pseudo filesystems
#
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
# CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR is not set
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
# CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is not set
# CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set
CONFIG_RAMFS=y

#
# Miscellaneous filesystems
#
# CONFIG_ADFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BEFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_EFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CRAMFS is not set
# CONFIG_VXFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set

#
# Network File Systems
#
# CONFIG_NFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NFSD is not set
# CONFIG_EXPORTFS is not set
# CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CIFS is not set
# CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set
# CONFIG_INTERMEZZO_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFS_FS is not set

#
# Partition Types
#
# CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y

#
# Native Language Support
#
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1250 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1251 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_13 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 is not set

#
# Profiling support
#
CONFIG_PROFILING=y
CONFIG_OPROFILE=y

#
# Kernel hacking
#
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is not set
# CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is not set
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
# CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not set
# CONFIG_4KSTACKS is not set

#
# Security options
#
# CONFIG_SECURITY is not set

#
# Cryptographic options
#
# CONFIG_CRYPTO is not set

#
# Library routines
#
CONFIG_CRC32=y
# CONFIG_LIBCRC32C is not set
CONFIG_X86_BIOS_REBOOT=y
CONFIG_X86_STD_RESOURCES=y

Ha! I have bested this kernel! Thank you for all of your help. When nothing I tried worked, I unchecked some of the "EXPERIMENTAL" options. I don't remember checking some of them, and they seemed rather harmless at the time, but I believe that specifically the one marked Dual Head mode was, for some reason checked. I am pretty sure that was the only option I changed to get it to work. Sorry it took me so long to report it, but I had to deal with my mouse not working for a while there (that is fixed too). Thanks again for all of your help.

Feels good doesn't it.

Oh yeah.