I read the other posts and cannot find a solution to my problem. I tried Knoppix, Sabayon, Debian, they boot up but then cannot find the DVD drive to read from and says it is dropping me to a low level shell. I got PCLinuxOS, FC6, Mandriva, and Mepis to work. Is this because SATA technology is not mature in these distros? I tried all the different boot options and I want to be able to run some of these other distros as I like to have a few on one computer. Here is dmesg:
.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000140 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz stepping 06
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 495k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb95b, last bus=4
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI4._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI2._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI5._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 *4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 8 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x800-0x85f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x860-0x8ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x100-0x1fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x200-0x277 has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x280-0x2e7 has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x2e8-0x2ef has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x2f0-0x2f7 has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x2f8-0x2ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x300-0x377 has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x380-0x3bb has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: dd000000-dfefffff
PREFETCH window: c0000000-cfffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: dcf00000-dcffffff
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.4
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: d000-dfff
MEM window: dcd00000-dcefffff
PREFETCH window: 50000000-500fffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.4[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1159283084.645:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0
cie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0
cie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0
cie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0
cie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0
cie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.4[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.4
cie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.4
cie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.4
cie03]
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xf0880000, using 3750k, total 131072k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=2
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:c720
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 12678 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 12630 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 90x11
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K 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
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
VBTN PCI0 PCI4 PCI2 PCI3 PCI1 PCI5 PCI6 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 USB4
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1a.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: irq 16, io base 0x0000ff20
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1a.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: irq 17, io base 0x0000ff00
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 18, io base 0x0000ff80
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 17, io base 0x0000ff60
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 19, io base 0x0000ff40
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1a.7[C] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1a.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: irq 20, io mem 0xdffdac00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 6-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 18, io mem 0xff980800
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 7-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
usb 4-1: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/start
usb 4-1: can't read configurations, error -71
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 4-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 5-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Dell Dell USB Keyboard as /class/input/input0
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Dell Dell USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2
input: Logitech USB RECEIVER as /class/input/input1
input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech USB RECEIVER] on usb-0000:00:1d.2-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.20 loaded.
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.05
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[C] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 0xFE12 bmdma 0xFEC0 irq 21
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE20 ctl 0xFE32 bmdma 0xFEC8 irq 21
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7fe9 84:4773 85:3469 86:3e01 87:4763 88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 156250000 sectors: LBA48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : ata_piix
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:4210 83:5000 84:4000 85:0210 86:1000 87:4000 88:203f
ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/100
ata2: PIO error
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi1 : ata_piix
Vendor: ATA Model: HDS728080PLA380 Rev: PF2O
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 >
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
Vendor: SONY Model: CDRWDVD CRX310S Rev: VDK2
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[C] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE40 ctl 0xFE52 bmdma 0xFED0 irq 21
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE60 ctl 0xFE72 bmdma 0xFED8 irq 21
ata3: SATA port has no device.
scsi2 : ata_piix
ata4: SATA port has no device.
scsi3 : ata_piix
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 4x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x4D11
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Adding 1124508k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1124508k
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
usbcore: registered new driver usbkbd
drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse
drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [VBTN]
Using specific hotkey driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13 (May 11, 2002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7869 advertising 05e1.
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0001dc00, 00:14:BF:5C:FE:CA, IRQ 17.
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
ppdev0: claim the port first
ppdev0: claim the port first
0000:04:05.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 41e1.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
mtrr: type mismatch for c0000000,8000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3158 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3158 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 1 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3158 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 2 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3158 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 3 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3158 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 4 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 3158 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 5 changed to on
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
