dual boot xp unstable

Thanks for your question. I ask you to start with the ubuntu live cd without insert the usb external disk. We try to understand exactly the partition configuration of your system. Thanks

Thanks for your question.

I can't access your thread on ubuntuforums.org, please see if the url changed.

We might need more information on your system configuration. As this is obviously a bug, we highly appreciate your help.

Please boot into your ubuntu system:

1) Provide the output of the command "sudo fdisk -l"
2) Provide the content of "/boot/grub/menu.lst" (you can do that by running "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst"
3) Provide the content of "/var/log/boot"
4) run "dmesg > content_file" and provide the content of "content_file"

Hello

Please appreciate that I am a novice user on anything except a Microsoft environment but I will give it a try. I have just re-installed 7.04 back onto my PC and I am replying to you with internet access on my laptop.

As requested hre are the results of questions 1 and 2

1) Provide the output of the command "sudo fdisk -l"

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/hda1 1 2611 20972826 7 HPFS/NTFS

/dev/hda2 2612 8458 46966027+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

/dev/hda3 * 8459 14336 47215035 83 Linux

/dev/hda4 14337 14593 2064352+ 5 Extended

/dev/hda5 14337 14593 2064321 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/hdb1 * 1 3916 31455238+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

/dev/hdb2 3917 14593 85763002+ b W95 FAT32

2) Provide the content of "/boot/grub/menu.lst" (you can do that by running "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst"

# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)

# grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),

# grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub

# and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.

## default num

# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and

# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.

#

# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry

# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.

# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not change this entry to 'saved' or your

# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.

default 0

## timeout sec

# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry

# (normally the first entry defined).

timeout 10

## hiddenmenu

# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)

#hiddenmenu

# Pretty colours

#color cyan/blue white/blue

## password ['--md5'] passwd

# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing

# control (menu entry editor and command-line) and entries protected by the

# command 'lock'

# e.g. password topsecret

# password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/

# password topsecret

#

# examples

#

# title Windows 95/98/NT/2000

# root (hd0,0)

# makeactive

# chainloader +1

#

# title Linux

# root (hd0,1)

# kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro

#

#

# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified

## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##

## default kernel options

## default kernel options for automagic boot options

## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z

## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.

## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro

## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro

## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro

# kopt=root=UUID=9b9e379e-8b8a-49a1-a9a7-1ea64b4b04f2 ro

## Setup crashdump menu entries

## e.g. crashdump=1

# crashdump=0

## default grub root device

## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)

# groot=(hd0,2)

## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options

## e.g. alternative=true

## alternative=false

# alternative=true

## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options

## e.g. lockalternative=true

## lockalternative=false

# lockalternative=false

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the

## alternatives

## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5

# defoptions=quiet splash

## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options

## e.g. lockold=false

## lockold=true

# lockold=false

## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option

# xenhopt=

## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option

# xenkopt=console=tty0

## altoption boot targets option

## multiple altoptions lines are allowed

## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options

## altoptions=(recovery) single

# altoptions=(recovery mode) single

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst

## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the

## alternative kernel options

## e.g. howmany=all

## howmany=7

# howmany=all

## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option

## e.g. memtest86=true

## memtest86=false

# memtest86=true

## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system

## can be true or false

# updatedefaultentry=false

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic

root (hd0,2)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=9b9e379e-8b8a-49a1-a9a7-1ea64b4b04f2 ro quiet splash

initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic

quiet

savedefault

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (recovery mode)

root (hd0,2)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=9b9e379e-8b8a-49a1-a9a7-1ea64b4b04f2 ro single

initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic

title Ubuntu, memtest86+

root (hd0,2)

kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin

quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian

# ones.

title Other operating systems:

root

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS

# on /dev/hda1

title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

root (hd0,0)

savedefault

makeactive

chainloader +1

I tried to follow your instructions for question 3 but wasn't sure how to go about it. However I did click around into a file called

boot [Read Only} (/var/log) - gedit

and I was presented with the following text
(Nothing has been logged yet.)

I tried to follow the instructions of question 4

4) run "dmesg > content_file" and provide the content of "content_file"

But I could only get information if I typed dmesg

Here are the results.

d: 000000000009fc00 type: 1

[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM

[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009fc00 size: 0000000000000400 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2

[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2

[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000007fef0000 end: 000000007fff0000 type: 1

[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM

[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000007fff0000 size: 0000000000003000 end: 000000007fff3000 type: 4

[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000007fff3000 size: 000000000000d000 end: 0000000080000000 type: 3

[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fec00000 size: 0000000000001000 end: 00000000fec01000 type: 2

[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fee00000 size: 0000000000001000 end: 00000000fee01000 type: 2

[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000ffff0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2

[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)

[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fff0000 (usable)

[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007fff0000 - 000000007fff3000 (ACPI NVS)

[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007fff3000 - 0000000080000000 (ACPI data)

[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)

[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)

[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

[ 0.000000] 1151MB HIGHMEM available.

[ 0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available.

[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000f5590

[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 524272) 0 entries of 256 used

[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:

[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096

[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 229376

[ 0.000000] HighMem 229376 -> 524272

[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges

[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 524272

[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 524272

[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap

[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved

[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0

[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap

[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31

[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 2303 pages used for memmap

[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 292593 pages, LIFO batch:31

[ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.

[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 VIAK8 ) @ 0x000f6f20

[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 VIAK8 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x7fff3000

[ 0.000000] ACPI: FADT (v001 VIAK8 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x7fff3040

[ 0.000000] ACPI: MADT (v001 VIAK8 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x7fff7f00

[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIAK8 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000

[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008

[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000

[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)

[ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 16

[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])

[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])

[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 3, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23

[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)

[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)

[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.

[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.

[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.

[ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs

[ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information

[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 88000000 (gap: 80000000:7ec00000)

[ 0.000000] Detected 2205.140 MHz processor.

[ 12.504949] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 520177

[ 12.504952] Kernel command line: root=UUID=9b9e379e-8b8a-49a1-a9a7-1ea64b4b04f2 ro quiet splash

[ 12.505067] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)

[ 12.505069] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)

[ 12.505072] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.

[ 12.505074] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.

[ 12.505081] Initializing CPU#0

[ 12.505136] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)

[ 12.506535] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25

[ 12.506963] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)

[ 12.507356] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)

[ 12.563060] Memory: 2067892k/2097088k available (1992k kernel code, 27888k reserved, 893k data, 328k init, 1179584k highmem)

[ 12.563068] virtual kernel memory layout:

[ 12.563069] fixmap : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000 ( 708 kB)

[ 12.563070] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)

[ 12.563071] vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)

[ 12.563073] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB)

[ 12.563074] .init : 0xc03d7000 - 0xc0429000 ( 328 kB)

[ 12.563075] .data : 0xc02f2264 - 0xc03d16d4 ( 893 kB)

[ 12.563076] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f2264 (1992 kB)

[ 12.563078] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.

[ 12.641034] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4414.03 BogoMIPS (lpj=8828068)

[ 12.641069] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized

[ 12.641076] SELinux: Disabled at boot.

[ 12.641088] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

[ 12.641204] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

[ 12.641211] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)

[ 12.641214] CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)

[ 12.641216] CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000410 00000000 00000000 00000000

[ 12.641226] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.

[ 12.641230] Remapping vsyscall page to ffffe000

[ 12.641238] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.

[ 12.657130] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code

[ 12.657302] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed

[ 12.657468] Early unpacking initramfs... done

[ 12.918478] ACPI: Core revision 20060707

[ 12.920997] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... file /DSDT.aml not found, using machine DSDT.

[ 12.923689] CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ stepping 08

[ 12.923707] Total of 1 processors activated (4414.03 BogoMIPS).

[ 12.924195] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs

[ 12.924498] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0

[ 13.068746] Brought up 1 CPUs

[ 13.068952] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware

[ 13.069025] Time: 12:34:08 Date: 04/10/107

[ 13.069046] NET: Registered protocol family 16

[ 13.069111] EISA bus registered

[ 13.069114] ACPI: bus type pci registered

[ 13.074190] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb8e0, last bus=1

[ 13.074192] PCI: Using configuration type 1

[ 13.074193] Setting up standard PCI resources

[ 13.081925] ACPI: Interpreter enabled

[ 13.081930] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing

[ 13.082360] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)

[ 13.082363] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)

[ 13.082914] PCI: MSI-K8T-Neo2Fir, attempting to turn soundcard ON

[ 13.082917] PCI: MSI-K8T-Neo2Fir, soundcard on

[ 13.083070] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0

[ 13.083099] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]

[ 13.121718] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12)

[ 13.121974] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *5

[ 13.122229] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12)

[ 13.122484] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *5

[ 13.122711] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.

[ 13.122933] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.

[ 13.123153] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.

[ 13.123374] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.

[ 13.123664] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 20) *0, disabled.

[ 13.123950] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs 21) *0, disabled.

[ 13.124250] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs 22) *0, disabled.

[ 13.124537] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs 23) *0, disabled.

[ 13.126783] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay

[ 13.126790] pnp: PnP ACPI init

[ 13.130454] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices

[ 13.130457] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP

[ 13.130489] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing

[ 13.130491] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report

[ 13.147527] NET: Registered protocol family 8

[ 13.147529] NET: Registered protocol family 20

[ 13.147793] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x4000-0x407f could not be reserved

[ 13.147795] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x5000-0x500f has been reserved

[ 13.147957] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0

[ 13.147958] IO window: disabled.

[ 13.147962] MEM window: e8000000-e9ffffff

[ 13.147965] PREFETCH window: d0000000-dfffffff

[ 13.147976] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64

[ 13.147993] NET: Registered protocol family 2

[ 13.184645] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)

[ 13.184744] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)

[ 13.185570] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)

[ 13.185977] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)

[ 13.185979] TCP reno registered

[ 13.196694] checking if image is initramfs... it is

[ 13.710724] Freeing initrd memory: 6990k freed

[ 13.711041] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)

[ 13.711051] audit(1178800449.288:1): initialized

[ 13.711099] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages

[ 13.711141] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1

[ 13.711154] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 13.711188] io scheduler noop registered

[ 13.711190] io scheduler anticipatory registered

[ 13.711192] io scheduler deadline registered

[ 13.711197] io scheduler cfq registered (default)

[ 13.711400] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...

[ 14.064712] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found

[ 14.080190] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac

[ 14.080223] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled

[ 14.080312] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

[ 14.080694] 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

[ 14.080838] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

[ 14.081196] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize

[ 14.081327] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0

[ 14.081350] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2

[ 14.081353] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

[ 14.081542] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12

[ 14.081744] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

[ 14.081747] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12

[ 14.081823] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0

[ 14.081839] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4

[ 14.081840] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5

[ 14.081851] EISA: Detected 0 cards.

[ 14.111982] TCP cubic registered

[ 14.111991] NET: Registered protocol family 1

[ 14.112005] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode

[ 14.112047] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)

[ 14.112081] Magic number: 7:46:582

[ 14.112128] hash matches device ptyc0

[ 14.112183] hash matches device 0000:00:06.0

[ 14.112465] Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed

[ 14.115848] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.

[ 14.131254] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1

[ 15.320294] Capability LSM initialized

[ 15.348640] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)

[ 15.352222] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (23 C)

[ 15.736847] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'

[ 15.737678] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16

[ 15.804590] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[16] MMIO=[ea009000-ea0097ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]

[ 15.810403] VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0

[ 15.810736] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 20

[ 15.810739] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] enabled at IRQ 20

[ 15.810745] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 17

[ 15.810756] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6

[ 15.810758] VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

[ 15.810767] VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.0

[ 15.810773] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc400-0xc407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA

[ 15.810784] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc408-0xc40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio

[ 15.810790] Probing IDE interface ide0...

[ 15.824343] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs

[ 15.824358] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub

[ 15.824376] usbcore: registered new device driver usb

[ 15.824909] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0

[ 15.935130] via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.2 Sept-11-2006 Written by Donald Becker

[ 16.015247] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

[ 16.038034] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

[ 16.266194] hda: ST3120022A, ATA DISK drive

[ 16.549966] hdb: ST3120022A, ATA DISK drive

[ 16.610953] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14

[ 16.618373] Probing IDE interface ide1...

[ 17.085532] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0010dc0000594211]

[ 17.493198] hdc: SONY DVD RW DW-U18A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

[ 18.169089] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

[ 18.175312] SCSI subsystem initialized

[ 18.179300] libata version 2.20 loaded.

[ 18.181014] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 21

[ 18.181016] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] enabled at IRQ 21

[ 18.181023] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 18

[ 18.181034] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller

[ 18.181238] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

[ 18.181268] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 18, io base 0x0000c800

[ 18.181528] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[ 18.181551] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found

[ 18.181557] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

[ 18.188620] hda: max request size: 512KiB

[ 18.196555] hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)

[ 18.198575] hda: cache flushes supported

[ 18.198604] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >

[ 18.241445] hdb: max request size: 512KiB

[ 18.241658] hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)

[ 18.241777] hdb: cache flushes supported

[ 18.241792] hdb: hdb1 hdb2

[ 18.264862] hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

[ 18.264869] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

[ 18.288594] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1[A] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 18

[ 18.288604] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller

[ 18.288620] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2

[ 18.288640] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 18, io base 0x0000cc00

[ 18.288710] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[ 18.288730] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found

[ 18.288736] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

[ 18.396463] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.2[B] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 18

[ 18.396473] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller

[ 18.396489] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3

[ 18.396509] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000d000

[ 18.396586] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[ 18.396604] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found

[ 18.396611] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

[ 18.504377] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.3[B] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 18

[ 18.504387] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller

[ 18.504404] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4

[ 18.504424] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 18, io base 0x0000d400

[ 18.504495] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[ 18.504513] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found

[ 18.504519] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

[ 18.612353] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.4[C] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 18

[ 18.612364] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller

[ 18.612382] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5

[ 18.612416] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 18, io mem 0xea00a000

[ 18.612422] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004

[ 18.612481] usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[ 18.612499] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found

[ 18.612505] hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected

[ 18.720549] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 23

[ 18.720553] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] enabled at IRQ 23

[ 18.720560] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [ALKD] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 19

[ 18.720625] eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1e000, 00:11:09:0f:68:c0, IRQ 19.

[ 18.721336] eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 05e1 Link 0000.

[ 18.778725] Attempting manual resume

[ 18.778728] swsusp: Resume From Partition 3:5

[ 18.778729] PM: Checking swsusp image.

[ 18.800210] PM: Resume from disk failed.

[ 18.835412] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds

[ 18.835421] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

[ 19.755275] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2

[ 19.950005] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[ 26.963519] eth0: link down

[ 28.108761] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5

[ 28.110881] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4

[ 28.226356] NET: Registered protocol family 17

[ 28.301624] Linux video capture interface: v2.00

[ 28.766116] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded

[ 28.767524] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 20

[ 28.767535] saa7134[0]: found at 0000:00:07.0, rev: 1, irq: 20, latency: 32, mmio: 0xea008000

[ 28.767540] saa7134[0]: subsystem: 16be:0003, board: Medion 7134 [card=12,autodetected]

[ 28.767546] saa7134[0]: board init: gpio is 0

[ 28.786931] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones

[ 28.911838] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 00: be 16 03 00 08 20 1c 55 43 43 a9 1c 55 43 43 a9

[ 28.911846] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff 15 00 0e 01 0c c0 08 00 00 00 00 00

[ 28.911851] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 00 00 00 e3 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

[ 28.911857] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

[ 28.911862] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

[ 28.911868] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

[ 28.911873] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

[ 28.911878] saa7134[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

[ 28.935827] saa7134[0] Tuner type is 38

[ 29.016546] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.

[ 29.016639] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]

[ 29.068948] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2

[ 29.107682] tuner 1-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (saa7134[0])

[ 29.107709] tda9887 1-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x43 (tuner)

[ 29.117709] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual

[ 29.135663] tuner 1-0060: All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767

[ 29.135667] tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (saa7134[0])

[ 29.135705] tuner 1-0060: type set to 38 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FM1216ME MK3))

[ 29.135708] tuner 1-0060: type set to 38 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FM1216ME MK3))

[ 29.194838] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...

[ 29.194907] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

[ 29.197032] saa7134[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]

[ 29.197058] saa7134[0]: registered device vbi0

[ 29.197077] saa7134[0]: registered device radio0

[ 29.197095] agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0

[ 29.200851] agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000

[ 29.200927] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 21

[ 29.200931] rt61 1.1.0 CVS CVS http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com

[ 29.200936] RT61: Vendor = 0x1814, Product = 0x0301

[ 29.204804] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage

[ 29.204807] USB Mass Storage support registered.

[ 29.204810] usb-storage: device found at 2

[ 29.204812] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

[ 29.311892] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded

[ 29.311917] saa7134[0]/alsa: saa7134[0] at 0xea008000 irq 20 registered as card -2

[ 29.382431] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 22

[ 29.382435] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] enabled at IRQ 22

[ 29.382442] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> Link [ALKC] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22

[ 29.382578] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64

[ 29.577643] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input3

[ 30.134206] fuse init (API version 7.8)

[ 30.155079] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).

[ 30.196207] Adding 2064312k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/3c0880e1-4ce5-4f9c-a9e0-736c4d0d3707. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2064312k

[ 30.306411] EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal

[ 34.205459] usb-storage: device scan complete

[ 34.241427] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic Card Reader CF v1.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS

[ 34.244413] scsi 0:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic Card Reader MS v1.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS

[ 34.247408] scsi 0:0:0:2: Direct-Access Generic Card ReadeMMC/SD v1.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS

[ 34.250406] scsi 0:0:0:3: Direct-Access Generic Card Reader SM v1.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS

[ 34.309445] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda

[ 34.314427] sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb

[ 34.319423] sd 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdc

[ 34.324417] sd 0:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sdd

[ 34.331621] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0

[ 34.331715] sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0

[ 34.331731] sd 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

[ 34.331744] sd 0:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0

[ 35.501495] Using specific hotkey driver

[ 35.582871] ibm_acpi: ec object not found

[ 35.641124] No dock devices found.

[ 35.691751] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input4

[ 35.695096] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]

[ 35.721654] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input5

[ 35.724976] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]

[ 35.756820] pcc_acpi: loading...

[ 35.946251] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ processors (version 2.00.00)

[ 35.946290] powernow-k8: invalid freq entries 3900000 kHz vs. 65535000 kHz

[ 35.946292] powernow-k8: invalid freq entries 3900000 kHz vs. 65535000 kHz

[ 35.946295] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0x2

[ 35.946296] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x6

[ 35.946298] powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0xa

[ 39.471360] RT61: RfIcType= 3

[ 40.996646] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver

[ 41.683941] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)

[ 41.683945] apm: overridden by ACPI.

[ 41.830707] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11

[ 41.830749] NET: Registered protocol family 31

[ 41.830751] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized

[ 41.830754] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized

[ 41.858949] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8

[ 41.858952] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized

[ 41.985451] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized

[ 41.985462] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized

[ 41.985464] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8

[ 29.428000] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.

[ 46.076000] NET: Registered protocol family 10

[ 46.076000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions

[ 46.076000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

[ 56.848000] ra1: no IPv6 routers present

[ 283.396000] usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3

[ 283.528000] usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[ 283.528000] scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

[ 283.528000] usb-storage: device found at 3

[ 283.528000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

[ 288.528000] usb-storage: device scan complete

[ 288.532000] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access Ut161 USB2FlashStorage 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2

[ 288.532000] SCSI device sde: 2048000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1049 MB)

[ 288.536000] sde: Write Protect is off

[ 288.536000] sde: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00

[ 288.536000] sde: assuming drive cache: write through

[ 288.536000] SCSI device sde: 2048000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1049 MB)

[ 288.536000] sde: Write Protect is off

[ 288.536000] sde: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00

[ 288.536000] sde: assuming drive cache: write through

[ 288.536000] sde: sde1

[ 288.608000] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sde

[ 288.608000] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0

[ 2013.440000] usb 5-5: USB disconnect, address 3

[ 2327.716000] usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4

[ 2327.852000] usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[ 2327.852000] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

[ 2327.852000] usb-storage: device found at 4

[ 2327.852000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

[ 2332.852000] usb-storage: device scan complete

[ 2332.856000] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Ut161 USB2FlashStorage 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2

[ 2332.860000] SCSI device sdf: 2048000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1049 MB)

[ 2332.860000] sdf: Write Protect is off

[ 2332.860000] sdf: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00

[ 2332.860000] sdf: assuming drive cache: write through

[ 2332.860000] SCSI device sdf: 2048000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1049 MB)

[ 2332.864000] sdf: Write Protect is off

[ 2332.864000] sdf: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00

[ 2332.864000] sdf: assuming drive cache: write through

[ 2332.864000] sdf: sdf1

[ 2332.932000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdf

[ 2332.932000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0

frank@frank-desktop:~$

frank@frank-desktop:~$

I hope you can make something of this and would appreciate any help or advice.

Thank you

Frank

Thanks for your answer. We need to clarify some things, as your log looks quite o.k..

1)
> During initial boot up I would get the following error request-module: runaway loop modprobe binf mt-ffff

O.k., after a little while I found you meant: runaway loop modprobe binfmt -ffff
I was not familar with that. In my opinion you -unfortunatly- hit a bug. I'd like to encourage you to file a bug at package linux-source-2.6.20. Just click here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+filebug

2)
> I then tried to boot into XP, got the welcome screen which then changed to the ubuntu screen which loaded
> ubuntu instead I then finally got into XP but some how my network card was affected and I had to tinker
> around to get back onto the internet.

Is this bug reproducable? Did you make a soft- or a hard-reboot?
If -and *only* if- it's reproducable, please file a bug at package grub: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+filebug

3)
> Installing ubuntu changed my slave drive and took about 40gb without me understanding why or how this happened

What do you mean by "changed"? According to your logs, Linux was installed on your first drive. So I assume that's your "master" drive. There are no linux partitions on drive hdb.

4)
> Sometimes it will not load and I have to switch off and try again.

If that happens regulary, please select "Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (recovery mode)" and have a look *where* it stops working.

5)
> When I went into a folder to look around (XP folder) the entire operating system froze. I took the dog for a walk for well over an hour
> and returned to a frozen screen.

Where you running windows, or did that happen when you where exploring a mounted windows device? Is that bug reproducable?

6)
> Being new to Linux style operating systems, is this a normal introduction or have I been very unlucky?

I'd say quite unlucky. :-) Most time we're only able to hunt bugs with a error message, or if they're reproducable. That makes it quite ambitious.

> I have tried the 6.06 Live CD but I could not watch any video footage or listen to any audio.

If "any" means MP3 and AVI, it's because of legal issues. You'll find more information on http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/.