Arch Linux on Intel Macs?

Are there any plans to make Arch Linux run on the new Intel based Macs?

BTW, talking to an Apple salesman over the weekend. Apparently the new iMacs will run Windows Vista too! Unlike previous Macs, they are not using a proprietary Apple BIOS setup, but something more general purpose that is compatible with Vista too. Apple doesn't want you running MacOS on your PC, but they don't seem to mind you running Windows on your Mac. Lets them get into the booming PC hardware business! The salesman assured me that most Linux distros would be able to run on the machines.
I played around with them, and despite having on 2 GHz chips (but two of them, of course) the iMacs were very responsive. I can only guess that MacOS is lighter than Windows, and hence faster subjectively on these "slower" processors.

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    Using arch linux mkinitcpio's encrypt hook, one can easily use encrypted root partitions with LUKS. It's also possible to use key files stored on an external drive, like an usb stick. However, if someone steals your usb stick, he can just copy the key and potentially access the system. I wanted to have a little extra security by additionally encrypting the key file with gpg using a symmetric cipher and a passphrase.
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    Conventions
    In this short guide, I use the following disk/partition names:
    /dev/sda: is the hard disk that will contain an encrypted swap (/dev/sda1), /var (/dev/sda2) and root (/dev/sda3) partition.
    /dev/sdb is the usb stick that will contain the gpg encrypted luks keys, the kernel and grub. It will have one partition /dev/sdb1 formatted with ext2.
    /dev/mapper/root, /dev/mapper/swap and /dev/mapper/var will be the encrypted devices.
    Credits
    Thanks to the authors of SECURITY_System_Encryption_DM-Crypt_with_LUKS (gentoo wiki), System Encryption with LUKS (arch wiki), mkinitcpio (arch wiki) and Early Userspace in Arch Linux (/dev/brain0 blog)!
    Guide
    1. Boot the arch live cd
    I had to use a newer testing version, because the 2010.05 cd came with a broken gpg. You can download one here: http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/. I chose the “core“ version. Go ahead and boot the live cd, but don't start the setup yet.
    2. Set keymap
    Use km to set your keymap. This is important for non-qwerty keyboards to avoid suprises with passphrases...
    3. Wipe your discs
    ATTENTION: this will DELETE everything on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb forever! Do not blame me for any lost data!
    Before encrypting the hard disc, it has to be completely wiped and overwritten with random data. I used shred for this. Others use badblocks or dd with /dev/urandom. Either way, this will take a long time, depending on the size of your disc. I also wiped my usb stick just to be sure.
    shred -v /dev/sda
    shred -v /dev/sdb
    4. Partitioning
    Fire up fdisk and create the following partitions:
    /dev/sda1, type linux swap.
    /dev/sda2: type linux
    /dev/sda3: type linux
    /dev/sdb1, type linux
    Of course you can choose a different layout, this is just how I did it. Keep in mind that only the root filesystem will be decrypted by the initcpio. The rest will be decypted during normal init boot using /etc/crypttab, the keys being somewhere on the root filesystem.
    5. Format  and mount the usb stick
    Create an ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb1:
    mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1
    mkdir /root/usb
    mount /dev/sdb1 /root/usb
    cd /root/usb # this will be our working directory for now.
    Do not mount anything to /mnt, because the arch installer will use that directory later to mount the encrypted root filesystem.
    6. Configure the network (if not already done automatically)
    ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
    route add default gw 192.168.0.1
    echo "nameserver 192.168.0.1" >> /etc/resolv.conf
    (this is just an example, your mileage may vary)
    7. Install gnupg
    pacman -Sy
    pacman -S gnupg
    Verify that gnupg works by launching gpg.
    8. Create the keys
    Just to be sure, make sure swap is off:
    cat /proc/swaps
    should return no entries.
    Create gpg encrypted keys (remember, we're still in our working dir /root/usb):
    dd if=/dev/urandom bs=512 count=4 | gpg -v --cipher-algo aes256 --digest-algo sha512 -c -a > root.gpg
    dd if=/dev/urandom bs=512 count=4 | gpg -v --cipher-algo aes256 --digest-algo sha512 -c -a > var.gpg
    Choose a strong password!!
    Don't do this in two steps, e.g don't do dd to a file and then gpg on that file. The key should never be stored in plain text on an unencrypted device, except if that device is wiped on system restart (ramfs)!
    Note that the default cipher for gpg is cast5, I just chose to use a different one.
    9. Create the encrypted devices with cryptsetup
    Create encrypted swap:
    cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 -s 256 -h whirlpool -d /dev/urandom create swap /dev/sda1
    You should see /dev/mapper/swap now. Don't format nor turn it on for now. This will be done by the arch installer.
    Important: From the Cryptsetup 1.1.2 Release notes:
    Cryptsetup can accept passphrase on stdin (standard input). Handling of new line (\n) character is defined by input specification:
        if keyfile is specified as "-" (using --key-file=- or by positional argument in luksFormat and luksAddKey, like cat file | cryptsetup --key-file=- <action> ), input is processed
          as normal binary file and no new line is interpreted.
        if there is no key file specification (with default input from stdin pipe like echo passphrase | cryptsetup <action> ) input is processed as input from terminal, reading will
          stop after new line is detected.
    If I understand this correctly, since the randomly generated key can contain a newline early on, piping the key into cryptsetup without specifying --key-file=- could result in a big part of the key to be ignored by cryptsetup. Example: if the random key was "foo\nandsomemorebaratheendofthekey", piping it directly into cryptsetup without --key-file=- would result in cryptsetup using only "foo" as key which would have big security implications. We should therefor ALWAYS pipe the key into cryptsetup using --key-file=- which ignores newlines.
    gpg -q -d root.gpg 2>/dev/null | cryptsetup -v -–key-file=- -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 -s 256 -h whirlpool luksFormat /dev/sda3
    gpg -q -d var.gpg 2>/dev/null | cryptsetup -v –-key-file=- -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 -s 256 -h whirlpool -v luksFormat /dev/sda2
    Check for any errors.
    10. Open the luks devices
    gpg -d root.gpg 2>/dev/null | cryptsetup -v –-key-file=- luksOpen /dev/sda3 root
    gpg -d var.gpg 2>/dev/null | cryptsetup -v –-key-file=- luksOpen /dev/sda2 var
    If you see /dev/mapper/root and /dev/mapper/var now, everything is ok.
    11. Start the installer /arch/setup
    Follow steps 1 to 3.
    At step 4 (Prepare hard drive(s), select “3 – Manually Configure block devices, filesystems and mountpoints. Choose /dev/sdb1 (the usb stick) as /boot, /dev/mapper/swap for swap, /dev/mapper/root for / and /dev/mapper/var for /var.
    Format all drives (choose “yes” when asked “do you want to have this filesystem (re)created”) EXCEPT for /dev/sdb1, choose “no”. Choose the correct filesystem for /dev/sdb1, ext2 in my case. Use swap for /dev/mapper/swap. For the rest, I chose ext4.
    Select DONE to start formatting.
    At step 5 (Select packages), select grub as boot loader. Select the base group. Add mkinitcpio.
    Start step 6 (Install packages).
    Go to step 7 (Configure System).
    By sure to set the correct KEYMAP, LOCALE and TIMEZONE in /etc/rc.conf.
    Edit /etc/fstab:
    /dev/mapper/root / ext4 defaults 0 1
    /dev/mapper/swap swap swap defaults 0 0
    /dev/mapper/var /var ext4 defaults 0 1
    # /dev/sdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
    Configure the rest normally. When you're done, setup will launch mkinitcpio. We'll manually launch this again later.
    Go to step 8 (install boot loader).
    Be sure to change the kernel line in menu.lst:
    kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/root cryptdevice=/dev/sda3:root cryptkey=/dev/sdb1:ext2:/root.gpg
    Don't forget the :root suffix in cryptdevice!
    Also, my root line was set to (hd1,0). Had to change that to
    root (hd0,0)
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    Now, we can exit the installer.
    12. Install mkinitcpio with the etwo hook.
    Create /mnt/lib/initcpio/hooks/etwo:
    #!/usr/bin/ash
    run_hook() {
    /sbin/modprobe -a -q dm-crypt >/dev/null 2>&1
    if [ -e "/sys/class/misc/device-mapper" ]; then
    if [ ! -e "/dev/mapper/control" ]; then
    /bin/mknod "/dev/mapper/control" c $(cat /sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev | sed 's|:| |')
    fi
    [ "${quiet}" = "y" ] && CSQUIET=">/dev/null"
    # Get keyfile if specified
    ckeyfile="/crypto_keyfile"
    usegpg="n"
    if [ "x${cryptkey}" != "x" ]; then
    ckdev="$(echo "${cryptkey}" | cut -d: -f1)"
    ckarg1="$(echo "${cryptkey}" | cut -d: -f2)"
    ckarg2="$(echo "${cryptkey}" | cut -d: -f3)"
    if poll_device "${ckdev}" ${rootdelay}; then
    case ${ckarg1} in
    *[!0-9]*)
    # Use a file on the device
    # ckarg1 is not numeric: ckarg1=filesystem, ckarg2=path
    if [ "${ckarg2#*.}" = "gpg" ]; then
    ckeyfile="${ckeyfile}.gpg"
    usegpg="y"
    fi
    mkdir /ckey
    mount -r -t ${ckarg1} ${ckdev} /ckey
    dd if=/ckey/${ckarg2} of=${ckeyfile} >/dev/null 2>&1
    umount /ckey
    # Read raw data from the block device
    # ckarg1 is numeric: ckarg1=offset, ckarg2=length
    dd if=${ckdev} of=${ckeyfile} bs=1 skip=${ckarg1} count=${ckarg2} >/dev/null 2>&1
    esac
    fi
    [ ! -f ${ckeyfile} ] && echo "Keyfile could not be opened. Reverting to passphrase."
    fi
    if [ -n "${cryptdevice}" ]; then
    DEPRECATED_CRYPT=0
    cryptdev="$(echo "${cryptdevice}" | cut -d: -f1)"
    cryptname="$(echo "${cryptdevice}" | cut -d: -f2)"
    else
    DEPRECATED_CRYPT=1
    cryptdev="${root}"
    cryptname="root"
    fi
    warn_deprecated() {
    echo "The syntax 'root=${root}' where '${root}' is an encrypted volume is deprecated"
    echo "Use 'cryptdevice=${root}:root root=/dev/mapper/root' instead."
    if poll_device "${cryptdev}" ${rootdelay}; then
    if /sbin/cryptsetup isLuks ${cryptdev} >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    [ ${DEPRECATED_CRYPT} -eq 1 ] && warn_deprecated
    dopassphrase=1
    # If keyfile exists, try to use that
    if [ -f ${ckeyfile} ]; then
    if [ "${usegpg}" = "y" ]; then
    # gpg tty fixup
    if [ -e /dev/tty ]; then mv /dev/tty /dev/tty.backup; fi
    cp -a /dev/console /dev/tty
    while [ ! -e /dev/mapper/${cryptname} ];
    do
    sleep 2
    /usr/bin/gpg -d "${ckeyfile}" 2>/dev/null | cryptsetup --key-file=- luksOpen ${cryptdev} ${cryptname} ${CSQUIET}
    dopassphrase=0
    done
    rm /dev/tty
    if [ -e /dev/tty.backup ]; then mv /dev/tty.backup /dev/tty; fi
    else
    if eval /sbin/cryptsetup --key-file ${ckeyfile} luksOpen ${cryptdev} ${cryptname} ${CSQUIET}; then
    dopassphrase=0
    else
    echo "Invalid keyfile. Reverting to passphrase."
    fi
    fi
    fi
    # Ask for a passphrase
    if [ ${dopassphrase} -gt 0 ]; then
    echo ""
    echo "A password is required to access the ${cryptname} volume:"
    #loop until we get a real password
    while ! eval /sbin/cryptsetup luksOpen ${cryptdev} ${cryptname} ${CSQUIET}; do
    sleep 2;
    done
    fi
    if [ -e "/dev/mapper/${cryptname}" ]; then
    if [ ${DEPRECATED_CRYPT} -eq 1 ]; then
    export root="/dev/mapper/root"
    fi
    else
    err "Password succeeded, but ${cryptname} creation failed, aborting..."
    exit 1
    fi
    elif [ -n "${crypto}" ]; then
    [ ${DEPRECATED_CRYPT} -eq 1 ] && warn_deprecated
    msg "Non-LUKS encrypted device found..."
    if [ $# -ne 5 ]; then
    err "Verify parameter format: crypto=hash:cipher:keysize:offset:skip"
    err "Non-LUKS decryption not attempted..."
    return 1
    fi
    exe="/sbin/cryptsetup create ${cryptname} ${cryptdev}"
    tmp=$(echo "${crypto}" | cut -d: -f1)
    [ -n "${tmp}" ] && exe="${exe} --hash \"${tmp}\""
    tmp=$(echo "${crypto}" | cut -d: -f2)
    [ -n "${tmp}" ] && exe="${exe} --cipher \"${tmp}\""
    tmp=$(echo "${crypto}" | cut -d: -f3)
    [ -n "${tmp}" ] && exe="${exe} --key-size \"${tmp}\""
    tmp=$(echo "${crypto}" | cut -d: -f4)
    [ -n "${tmp}" ] && exe="${exe} --offset \"${tmp}\""
    tmp=$(echo "${crypto}" | cut -d: -f5)
    [ -n "${tmp}" ] && exe="${exe} --skip \"${tmp}\""
    if [ -f ${ckeyfile} ]; then
    exe="${exe} --key-file ${ckeyfile}"
    else
    exe="${exe} --verify-passphrase"
    echo ""
    echo "A password is required to access the ${cryptname} volume:"
    fi
    eval "${exe} ${CSQUIET}"
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    err "Non-LUKS device decryption failed. verify format: "
    err " crypto=hash:cipher:keysize:offset:skip"
    exit 1
    fi
    if [ -e "/dev/mapper/${cryptname}" ]; then
    if [ ${DEPRECATED_CRYPT} -eq 1 ]; then
    export root="/dev/mapper/root"
    fi
    else
    err "Password succeeded, but ${cryptname} creation failed, aborting..."
    exit 1
    fi
    else
    err "Failed to open encryption mapping: The device ${cryptdev} is not a LUKS volume and the crypto= paramater was not specified."
    fi
    fi
    rm -f ${ckeyfile}
    fi
    Create /mnt/lib/initcpio/install/etwo:
    #!/bin/bash
    build() {
    local mod
    add_module dm-crypt
    if [[ $CRYPTO_MODULES ]]; then
    for mod in $CRYPTO_MODULES; do
    add_module "$mod"
    done
    else
    add_all_modules '/crypto/'
    fi
    add_dir "/dev/mapper"
    add_binary "cryptsetup"
    add_binary "dmsetup"
    add_binary "/usr/bin/gpg"
    add_file "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/10-dm.rules"
    add_file "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/13-dm-disk.rules"
    add_file "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-dm-notify.rules"
    add_file "/usr/lib/initcpio/udev/11-dm-initramfs.rules" "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/11-dm-initramfs.rules"
    add_runscript
    help ()
    cat<<HELPEOF
    This hook allows for an encrypted root device with support for gpg encrypted key files.
    To use gpg, the key file must have the extension .gpg and you have to install gpg and add /usr/bin/gpg
    to your BINARIES var in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.
    HELPEOF
    Edit /mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.conf (only relevant sections displayed):
    MODULES=”ext2 ext4” # not sure if this is really nessecary.
    BINARIES=”/usr/bin/gpg” # this could probably be done in install/etwo...
    HOOKS=”base udev usbinput keymap autodetect pata scsi sata usb etwo filesystems” # (usbinput is only needed if you have an usb keyboard)
    Copy the initcpio stuff over to the live cd:
    cp /mnt/lib/initcpio/hooks/etwo /lib/initcpio/hooks/
    cp /mnt/lib/initcpio/install/etwo /lib/initcpio/install/
    cp /mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.conf /etc/
    Verify your LOCALE, KEYMAP and TIMEZONE in /etc/rc.conf!
    Now reinstall the initcpio:
    mkinitcpio -g /mnt/boot/kernel26.img
    Make sure there were no errors and that all hooks were included.
    13. Decrypt the "var" key to the encrypted root
    mkdir /mnt/keys
    chmod 500 /mnt/keys
    gpg –output /mnt/keys/var -d /mnt/boot/var.gpg
    chmod 400 /mnt/keys/var
    14. Setup crypttab
    Edit /mnt/etc/crypttab:
    swap /dev/sda1 SWAP -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 -s 256 -h whirlpool
    var /dev/sda2 /keys/var
    15. Reboot
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    Make backups of your data and your usb stick and do not forget your password(s)! Or you can say goodbye to your data forever...
    Last edited by fabriceb (2013-01-15 22:36:23)

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    00bfe00000 - 00bfee0000 page 4k
    kernel direct mapping tables up to bfee0000 @ 8000-d000
    init_memory_mapping: 0000000100000000-0000000140000000
    0100000000 - 0140000000 page 2M
    kernel direct mapping tables up to 140000000 @ b000-11000
    RAMDISK: 378e2000 - 37fef5c0
    ACPI: RSDP 00000000000f64f0 00014 (v00 PTLTD )
    ACPI: RSDT 00000000bfee3615 0003C (v01 PTLTD RSDT 06040000 LTP 00000000)
    ACPI: FACP 00000000bfee8e70 00074 (v01 INTEL 06040000 PTL 00000003)
    ACPI: DSDT 00000000bfee384c 05624 (v01 INTEL GLENWOOD 06040000 MSFT 0100000E)
    ACPI: FACS 00000000bfee9fc0 00040
    ACPI: SPCR 00000000bfee8ee4 00050 (v01 PTLTD $UCRTBL$ 06040000 PTL 00000001)
    ACPI: MCFG 00000000bfee8f34 0003C (v01 PTLTD MCFG 06040000 LTP 00000000)
    ACPI: APIC 00000000bfee8f70 00068 (v01 PTLTD APIC 06040000 LTP 00000000)
    ACPI: BOOT 00000000bfee8fd8 00028 (v01 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 06040000 LTP 00000001)
    ACPI: SSDT 00000000bfee3651 001FB (v01 PmRef CpuPm 00003000 INTL 20030224)
    ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
    (8 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 0140000000]
    #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
    #1 [0000006000 - 0000008000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000008000]
    #2 [0000200000 - 000082d0d0] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000200000 - 000082d0d0]
    #3 [00378e2000 - 0037fef5c0] RAMDISK ==> [00378e2000 - 0037fef5c0]
    #4 [000009b800 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009b800 - 0000100000]
    #5 [000082e000 - 000082e198] BRK ==> [000082e000 - 000082e198]
    #6 [0000008000 - 000000b000] PGTABLE ==> [0000008000 - 000000b000]
    #7 [000000b000 - 000000c000] PGTABLE ==> [000000b000 - 000000c000]
    found SMP MP-table at [ffff8800000f6520] f6520
    [ffffe20000000000-ffffe200045fffff] PMD -> [ffff880028200000-ffff88002c7fffff] on node 0
    Zone PFN ranges:
    DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
    DMA32 0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
    Normal 0x00100000 -> 0x00140000
    Movable zone start PFN for each node
    early_node_map[4] active PFN ranges
    0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000001
    0: 0x00000006 -> 0x0000009b
    0: 0x00000100 -> 0x000bfee0
    0: 0x00100000 -> 0x00140000
    On node 0 totalpages: 1048182
    DMA zone: 56 pages used for memmap
    DMA zone: 1688 pages reserved
    DMA zone: 2246 pages, LIFO batch:0
    DMA32 zone: 14280 pages used for memmap
    DMA32 zone: 767768 pages, LIFO batch:31
    Normal zone: 3584 pages used for memmap
    Normal zone: 258560 pages, LIFO batch:31
    ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
    ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
    ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
    ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
    ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
    ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
    ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
    IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 0, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
    ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge)
    ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
    ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
    ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
    ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
    Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
    SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
    nr_irqs_gsi: 24
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000000001000 - 0000000000006000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009b000 - 000000000009c000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009c000 - 00000000000a0000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000bfee0000 - 00000000bfee9000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000bfee9000 - 00000000bff00000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000bff00000 - 00000000c0000000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000c0000000 - 00000000fec00000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000fec10000 - 00000000fee00000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000fee01000 - 00000000ff000000
    PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000
    Allocating PCI resources starting at c4000000 (gap: c0000000:3ec00000)
    NR_CPUS:16 nr_cpumask_bits:16 nr_cpu_ids:2 nr_node_ids:1
    PERCPU: Embedded 25 pages at ffff880028022000, static data 72352 bytes
    Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1028574
    Kernel command line: lang=en locale=en_US.UTF-8 archisolabel=ARCHISO_KE1AECIE ramdisk_size=75%
    Initializing CPU#0
    NR_IRQS:768
    PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
    Fast TSC calibration using PIT
    Detected 2999.990 MHz processor.
    Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
    console [tty0] enabled
    Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
    Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
    Checking aperture...
    No AGP bridge found
    Calgary: detecting Calgary via BIOS EBDA area
    Calgary: Unable to locate Rio Grande table in EBDA - bailing!
    PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
    Placing 64MB software IO TLB between ffff880020000000 - ffff880024000000
    software IO TLB at phys 0x20000000 - 0x24000000
    Memory: 4034028k/5242880k available (3409k kernel code, 1050152k absent, 157764k reserved, 1239k data, 464k init)
    SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
    Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 6002.97 BogoMIPS (lpj=9999966)
    Security Framework initialized
    Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
    CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
    CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
    CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
    CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
    CPU0: Thermal monitoring handled by SMI
    using mwait in idle threads.
    ACPI: Core revision 20090320
    Setting APIC routing to flat
    ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
    CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03
    Booting processor 1 APIC 0x1 ip 0x6000
    Initializing CPU#1
    Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6002.80 BogoMIPS (lpj=9999695)
    CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
    CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
    CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
    CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
    CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
    x86 PAT enabled: cpu 1, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
    CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03
    checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
    Brought up 2 CPUs
    Total of 2 processors activated (12004.78 BogoMIPS).
    CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
    domain 0: span 0-1 level SIBLING
    groups: 0 1
    CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
    domain 0: span 0-1 level SIBLING
    groups: 1 0
    net_namespace: 1888 bytes
    Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
    NET: Registered protocol family 16
    ACPI: bus type pci registered
    PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base e0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 9
    PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
    PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
    bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
    ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
    ACPI: Interpreter enabled
    ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
    ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
    PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base e0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 9
    PCI: MCFG area at e0000000 reserved in ACPI motherboard resources
    PCI: Using MMCONFIG at e0000000 - e09fffff
    ACPI: No dock devices found.
    ACPI Warning (nspredef-0331): \_SB_.PCI0._OSC: Parameter count mismatch - ASL declared 5, ACPI requires 4 [20090320]
    ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
    pci 0000:00:01.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    pci 0000:00:01.0: PME# disabled
    pci 0000:00:1c.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    pci 0000:00:1c.0: PME# disabled
    pci 0000:00:1c.4: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    pci 0000:00:1c.4: PME# disabled
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: PME# disabled
    pci 0000:00:1d.0: reg 20 io port: [0x3000-0x301f]
    pci 0000:00:1d.1: reg 20 io port: [0x3020-0x303f]
    pci 0000:00:1d.2: reg 20 io port: [0x3040-0x305f]
    pci 0000:00:1d.7: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xc0000000-0xc00003ff]
    pci 0000:00:1d.7: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    pci 0000:00:1d.7: PME# disabled
    pci 0000:00:1f.0: Force enabled HPET at 0xfed00000
    pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
    pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 1180-11bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO
    pci 0000:00:1f.0: ICH7 LPC Generic IO decode 1 PIO at 0500 (mask 007f)
    pci 0000:00:1f.0: ICH7 LPC Generic IO decode 2 PIO at 0ca0 (mask 000f)
    pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 10 io port: [0x00-0x07]
    pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 14 io port: [0x00-0x03]
    pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 18 io port: [0x00-0x07]
    pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 1c io port: [0x00-0x03]
    pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 20 io port: [0x3080-0x308f]
    pci 0000:00:1f.3: reg 20 io port: [0x3060-0x307f]
    pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge io port: [0x00-0xfff]
    pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x0fffff]
    pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge 64bit mmio pref: [0x000000-0x0fffff]
    pci 0000:02:00.0: PXH quirk detected; SHPC device MSI disabled
    pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# disabled
    pci 0000:02:00.1: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xc0100000-0xc0100fff]
    pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge io port: [0x4000-0x4fff]
    pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xc0100000-0xc02fffff]
    pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge 64bit mmio pref: [0xc0500000-0xc05fffff]
    pci 0000:03:04.0: reg 10 64bit mmio: [0xc0280000-0xc02bffff]
    pci 0000:03:04.0: reg 18 64bit mmio: [0xc0500000-0xc051ffff]
    pci 0000:03:04.0: reg 20 io port: [0x4000-0x40ff]
    pci 0000:03:04.0: reg 30 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x07ffff]
    pci 0000:02:00.0: bridge io port: [0x4000-0x4fff]
    pci 0000:02:00.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xc0200000-0xc02fffff]
    pci 0000:02:00.0: bridge 64bit mmio pref: [0xc0500000-0xc05fffff]
    pci 0000:04:00.0: reg 10 64bit mmio: [0xc0300000-0xc030ffff]
    pci 0000:04:00.0: PME# supported from D3hot D3cold
    pci 0000:04:00.0: PME# disabled
    pci 0000:00:1c.4: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xc0300000-0xc03fffff]
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: bridge io port: [0x00-0xfff]
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: bridge 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x0fffff]
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: bridge 64bit mmio pref: [0x000000-0x0fffff]
    pci 0000:0a:04.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xc8000000-0xcfffffff]
    pci 0000:0a:04.0: reg 14 io port: [0x5000-0x50ff]
    pci 0000:0a:04.0: reg 18 32bit mmio: [0xc0400000-0xc040ffff]
    pci 0000:0a:04.0: reg 30 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x01ffff]
    pci 0000:0a:04.0: supports D1 D2
    pci 0000:00:1e.0: transparent bridge
    pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge io port: [0x5000-0x5fff]
    pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xc0400000-0xc04fffff]
    pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge 64bit mmio pref: [0xc8000000-0xcfffffff]
    pci_bus 0000:00: on NUMA node 0
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEG_._PRT]
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.EXP1.PXHV._PRT]
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.EXP5._PRT]
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.EXP6._PRT]
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 *10 11 14 15)
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 10 *11 14 15)
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 10 *11 14 15)
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 *10 11 14 15)
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
    ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *5
    PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
    pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 13: can't allocate resource
    pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 14: can't allocate resource
    pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 15: can't allocate resource
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: BAR 13: can't allocate resource
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: BAR 14: can't allocate resource
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: BAR 15: can't allocate resource
    NetLabel: Initializing
    NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
    NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
    NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
    hpet clockevent registered
    HPET: 3 timers in total, 0 timers will be used for per-cpu timer
    pnp: PnP ACPI init
    ACPI: bus type pnp registered
    pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
    ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
    system 00:01: ioport range 0x800-0x83f has been reserved
    system 00:01: ioport range 0x1000-0x107f has been reserved
    system 00:01: ioport range 0x1180-0x11bf has been reserved
    system 00:01: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
    system 00:01: ioport range 0x500-0x57f has been reserved
    system 00:01: ioport range 0xca8-0xca8 has been reserved
    system 00:01: ioport range 0xcac-0xcac has been reserved
    system 00:01: ioport range 0xfe00-0xfe00 has been reserved
    system 00:01: iomem range 0xfed14000-0xfed17fff has been reserved
    system 00:01: iomem range 0xfed13000-0xfed13fff has been reserved
    system 00:01: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff has been reserved
    system 00:01: iomem range 0xfed20000-0xfed8ffff has been reserved
    pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:01
    pci 0000:00:01.0: IO window: disabled
    pci 0000:00:01.0: MEM window: disabled
    pci 0000:00:01.0: PREFETCH window: disabled
    pci 0000:02:00.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:03
    pci 0000:02:00.0: IO window: 0x4000-0x4fff
    pci 0000:02:00.0: MEM window: 0xc0200000-0xc02fffff
    pci 0000:02:00.0: PREFETCH window: 0x000000c0500000-0x000000c05fffff
    pci 0000:00:1c.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:02
    pci 0000:00:1c.0: IO window: 0x4000-0x4fff
    pci 0000:00:1c.0: MEM window: 0xc0100000-0xc02fffff
    pci 0000:00:1c.0: PREFETCH window: 0x000000c0500000-0x000000c05fffff
    pci 0000:00:1c.4: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:04
    pci 0000:00:1c.4: IO window: disabled
    pci 0000:00:1c.4: MEM window: 0xc0300000-0xc03fffff
    pci 0000:00:1c.4: PREFETCH window: disabled
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:05
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: IO window: disabled
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: MEM window: disabled
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: PREFETCH window: disabled
    pci 0000:00:1e.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:0a
    pci 0000:00:1e.0: IO window: 0x5000-0x5fff
    pci 0000:00:1e.0: MEM window: 0xc0400000-0xc04fffff
    pci 0000:00:1e.0: PREFETCH window: 0x000000c8000000-0x000000cfffffff
    pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
    pci 0000:00:01.0: setting latency timer to 64
    pci 0000:00:1c.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
    pci 0000:00:1c.0: setting latency timer to 64
    pci 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
    pci 0000:00:1c.4: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
    pci 0000:00:1c.4: setting latency timer to 64
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: PCI INT B -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
    pci 0000:00:1c.5: setting latency timer to 64
    pci 0000:00:1e.0: setting latency timer to 64
    pci_bus 0000:00: resource 0 io: [0x00-0xffff]
    pci_bus 0000:00: resource 1 mem: [0x000000-0xffffffffffffffff]
    pci_bus 0000:01: resource 0 mem: [0x0-0xfff]
    pci_bus 0000:01: resource 1 mem: [0x0-0xfffff]
    pci_bus 0000:01: resource 2 mem: [0x0-0xfffff]
    pci_bus 0000:02: resource 0 io: [0x4000-0x4fff]
    pci_bus 0000:02: resource 1 mem: [0xc0100000-0xc02fffff]
    pci_bus 0000:02: resource 2 pref mem [0xc0500000-0xc05fffff]
    pci_bus 0000:03: resource 0 io: [0x4000-0x4fff]
    pci_bus 0000:03: resource 1 mem: [0xc0200000-0xc02fffff]
    pci_bus 0000:03: resource 2 pref mem [0xc0500000-0xc05fffff]
    pci_bus 0000:04: resource 1 mem: [0xc0300000-0xc03fffff]
    pci_bus 0000:05: resource 0 mem: [0x0-0xfff]
    pci_bus 0000:05: resource 1 mem: [0x0-0xfffff]
    pci_bus 0000:05: resource 2 mem: [0x0-0xfffff]
    pci_bus 0000:0a: resource 0 io: [0x5000-0x5fff]
    pci_bus 0000:0a: resource 1 mem: [0xc0400000-0xc04fffff]
    pci_bus 0000:0a: resource 2 pref mem [0xc8000000-0xcfffffff]
    pci_bus 0000:0a: resource 3 io: [0x00-0xffff]
    pci_bus 0000:0a: resource 4 mem: [0x000000-0xffffffffffffffff]
    NET: Registered protocol family 2
    IP route cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
    TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
    TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
    TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
    TCP reno registered
    NET: Registered protocol family 1
    Unpacking initramfs...
    Freeing initrd memory: 7221k freed
    Simple Boot Flag at 0x3c set to 0x1
    Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
    audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
    type=2000 audit(1250095030.473:1): initialized
    VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
    Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
    msgmni has been set to 7894
    alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
    Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
    io scheduler noop registered
    io scheduler anticipatory registered
    io scheduler deadline registered
    io scheduler cfq registered (default)
    PCI quirk: reroute interrupts for 0x8086:0x032c
    pci 0000:0a:04.0: Boot video device
    pcieport-driver 0000:00:01.0: irq 24 for MSI/MSI-X
    pcieport-driver 0000:00:01.0: setting latency timer to 64
    pcieport-driver 0000:00:1c.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
    pcieport-driver 0000:00:1c.0: setting latency timer to 64
    pcieport-driver 0000:00:1c.4: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
    pcieport-driver 0000:00:1c.4: setting latency timer to 64
    pcieport-driver 0000:00:1c.5: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
    pcieport-driver 0000:00:1c.5: setting latency timer to 64
    Linux agpgart interface v0.103
    Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
    serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
    serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
    00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
    00:08: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
    input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
    PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
    serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
    serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
    mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
    cpuidle: using governor ladder
    cpuidle: using governor menu
    TCP cubic registered
    NET: Registered protocol family 17
    registered taskstats version 1
    Initalizing network drop monitor service
    Freeing unused kernel memory: 464k freed
    input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
    Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
    Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
    SCSI subsystem initialized
    usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
    usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
    usbcore: registered new device driver usb
    ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
    ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
    ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: setting latency timer to 64
    ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
    ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
    ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
    ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: cache line size of 128 is not supported
    ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, io mem 0xc0000000
    ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
    usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
    hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
    uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: setting latency timer to 64
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 23, io base 0x00003000
    usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
    hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: setting latency timer to 64
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x00003020
    usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
    hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: setting latency timer to 64
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
    uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x00003040
    usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
    hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
    libata version 3.00 loaded.
    ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.13
    ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
    ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: setting latency timer to 64
    scsi0 : ata_piix
    scsi1 : ata_piix
    aic94xx: Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA driver version 1.0.3 loaded
    aic94xx 0000:03:04.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
    ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x3080 irq 14
    ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x3088 irq 15
    aic94xx: found Adaptec AIC-9405W SAS/SATA Host Adapter, device 0000:03:04.0
    scsi2 : aic94xx
    aic94xx 0000:03:04.0: firmware: requesting aic94xx-seq.fw
    aic94xx: Failed to load sequencer firmware file aic94xx-seq.fw, error -2
    aic94xx: couldn't init seqs for 0000:03:04.0
    aic94xx: couldn't init the chip
    aic94xx 0000:03:04.0: PCI INT A disabled
    aic94xx: probe of 0000:03:04.0 failed with error -2
    ata1.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H55N, 1.03, max UDMA/66
    ata1.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable
    ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
    scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55N 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
    ata2: port disabled. ignoring.
    Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
    sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
    Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
    sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
    usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
    usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
    input: USB Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input2
    generic-usb 0003:04B3:310C.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0
    usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
    usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
    ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
    squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
    aufs 2-standalone.tree-20090601
    loop: module loaded
    aufs test_add:240:mount[635]: uid/gid/perm /tmpfs/mnt/loop0 0/0/0755, 0/0/01777
    aufs test_add:240:mount[648]: uid/gid/perm /tmpfs/mnt/loop2 0/0/0755, 0/0/01777
    rtc_cmos 00:04: RTC can wake from S4
    rtc_cmos 00:04: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
    rtc0: alarms up to one month, y3k, 114 bytes nvram, hpet irqs
    udev: starting version 141
    input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input3
    intel_rng: FWH not detected
    pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
    shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
    input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input4
    ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
    input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input5
    ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
    EDAC MC: Ver: 2.1.0 Jul 31 2009
    iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
    i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
    tg3.c:v3.98 (February 25, 2009)
    tg3 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
    tg3 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
    tg3 0000:04:00.0: PME# disabled
    eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95721) rev 4101] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:11:25:a4:42:2f
    eth0: attached PHY is 5750 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
    eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[1] TSOcap[1]
    eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
    sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
    iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.05
    iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH7 or ICH7R TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x1060)
    iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
    processor ACPI_CPU:00: registered as cooling_device0
    ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
    processor ACPI_CPU:01: registered as cooling_device1
    ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
    EDAC MC0: Giving out device to 'i3000_edac' 'i3000': DEV 0000:00:00.0
    EDAC PCI0: Giving out device to module 'i3000_edac' controller 'EDAC PCI controller': DEV '0000:00:00.0' (POLLED)
    lp: driver loaded but no devices found
    parport_pc 00:0b: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
    parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 1 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
    lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
    ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
    This is the messages.log:
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Linux version 2.6.30-ARCH (root@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.4.1 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 31 07:30:28 CEST 2009
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Command line: lang=en locale=en_US.UTF-8 archisolabel=ARCHISO_KE1AECIE ramdisk_size=75%
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: KERNEL supported cpus:
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Intel GenuineIntel
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: AMD AuthenticAMD
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Centaur CentaurHauls
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009b800 (usable)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009b800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bfee0000 (usable)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000bfee0000 - 00000000bfee9000 (ACPI data)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000bfee9000 - 00000000bff00000 (ACPI NVS)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000bff00000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: DMI present.
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: last_pfn = 0x140000 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: last_pfn = 0xbfee0 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Scanning 1 areas for low memory corruption
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified physical RAM map:
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000001000 (usable)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 0000000000001000 - 0000000000006000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 0000000000006000 - 000000000009b800 (usable)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 000000000009b800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bfee0000 (usable)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 00000000bfee0000 - 00000000bfee9000 (ACPI data)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 00000000bfee9000 - 00000000bff00000 (ACPI NVS)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 00000000bff00000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: modified: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-00000000bfee0000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: init_memory_mapping: 0000000100000000-0000000140000000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: RAMDISK: 378e2000 - 37fef5c0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: RSDP 00000000000f64f0 00014 (v00 PTLTD )
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: RSDT 00000000bfee3615 0003C (v01 PTLTD RSDT 06040000 LTP 00000000)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: FACP 00000000bfee8e70 00074 (v01 INTEL 06040000 PTL 00000003)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: DSDT 00000000bfee384c 05624 (v01 INTEL GLENWOOD 06040000 MSFT 0100000E)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: FACS 00000000bfee9fc0 00040
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: SPCR 00000000bfee8ee4 00050 (v01 PTLTD $UCRTBL$ 06040000 PTL 00000001)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: MCFG 00000000bfee8f34 0003C (v01 PTLTD MCFG 06040000 LTP 00000000)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: APIC 00000000bfee8f70 00068 (v01 PTLTD APIC 06040000 LTP 00000000)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: BOOT 00000000bfee8fd8 00028 (v01 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 06040000 LTP 00000001)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: SSDT 00000000bfee3651 001FB (v01 PmRef CpuPm 00003000 INTL 20030224)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: (8 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 0140000000]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: #1 [0000006000 - 0000008000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000008000]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: #2 [0000200000 - 000082d0d0] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000200000 - 000082d0d0]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: #3 [00378e2000 - 0037fef5c0] RAMDISK ==> [00378e2000 - 0037fef5c0]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: #4 [000009b800 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009b800 - 0000100000]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: #5 [000082e000 - 000082e198] BRK ==> [000082e000 - 000082e198]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: #6 [0000008000 - 000000b000] PGTABLE ==> [0000008000 - 000000b000]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: #7 [000000b000 - 000000c000] PGTABLE ==> [000000b000 - 000000c000]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: found SMP MP-table at [ffff8800000f6520] f6520
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Zone PFN ranges:
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: DMA32 0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Normal 0x00100000 -> 0x00140000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Movable zone start PFN for each node
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: early_node_map[4] active PFN ranges
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000001
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: 0: 0x00000006 -> 0x0000009b
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x000bfee0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: 0: 0x00100000 -> 0x00140000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 0, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000000001000 - 0000000000006000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009b000 - 000000000009c000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009c000 - 00000000000a0000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000bfee0000 - 00000000bfee9000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000bfee9000 - 00000000bff00000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000bff00000 - 00000000c0000000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000c0000000 - 00000000fec00000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000fec10000 - 00000000fee00000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000fee01000 - 00000000ff000000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Allocating PCI resources starting at c4000000 (gap: c0000000:3ec00000)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: NR_CPUS:16 nr_cpumask_bits:16 nr_cpu_ids:2 nr_node_ids:1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PERCPU: Embedded 25 pages at ffff880028022000, static data 72352 bytes
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1028574
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Kernel command line: lang=en locale=en_US.UTF-8 archisolabel=ARCHISO_KE1AECIE ramdisk_size=75%
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Initializing CPU#0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: NR_IRQS:768
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Fast TSC calibration using PIT
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Detected 2999.990 MHz processor.
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: console [tty0] enabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Checking aperture...
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: No AGP bridge found
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Placing 64MB software IO TLB between ffff880020000000 - ffff880024000000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: software IO TLB at phys 0x20000000 - 0x24000000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Memory: 4034028k/5242880k available (3409k kernel code, 1050152k absent, 157764k reserved, 1239k data, 464k init)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 6002.97 BogoMIPS (lpj=9999966)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Security Framework initialized
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: using mwait in idle threads.
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: Core revision 20090320
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Setting APIC routing to flat
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Booting processor 1 APIC 0x1 ip 0x6000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Initializing CPU#1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6002.80 BogoMIPS (lpj=9999695)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: x86 PAT enabled: cpu 1, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Brought up 2 CPUs
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Total of 2 processors activated (12004.78 BogoMIPS).
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: net_namespace: 1888 bytes
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 16
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: bus type pci registered
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base e0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 9
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base e0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 9
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PCI: MCFG area at e0000000 reserved in ACPI motherboard resources
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PCI: Using MMCONFIG at e0000000 - e09fffff
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: No dock devices found.
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI Warning (nspredef-0331): \_SB_.PCI0._OSC: Parameter count mismatch - ASL declared 5, ACPI requires 4 [20090320]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: PME# disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.0: PME# disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.4: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.4: PME# disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.5: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.5: PME# disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1d.7: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1d.7: PME# disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 1180-11bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1f.0: ICH7 LPC Generic IO decode 1 PIO at 0500 (mask 007f)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1f.0: ICH7 LPC Generic IO decode 2 PIO at 0ca0 (mask 000f)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:02:00.0: PXH quirk detected; SHPC device MSI disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:04:00.0: PME# supported from D3hot D3cold
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:04:00.0: PME# disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1e.0: transparent bridge
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 *10 11 14 15)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 10 *11 14 15)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 10 *11 14 15)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 *10 11 14 15)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *5
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 13: can't allocate resource
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 14: can't allocate resource
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 15: can't allocate resource
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.5: BAR 13: can't allocate resource
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.5: BAR 14: can't allocate resource
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.5: BAR 15: can't allocate resource
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: NetLabel: Initializing
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: HPET: 3 timers in total, 0 timers will be used for per-cpu timer
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pnp: PnP ACPI init
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: bus type pnp registered
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: ioport range 0x800-0x83f has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: ioport range 0x1000-0x107f has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: ioport range 0x1180-0x11bf has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: ioport range 0x500-0x57f has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: ioport range 0xca8-0xca8 has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: ioport range 0xcac-0xcac has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: ioport range 0xfe00-0xfe00 has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: iomem range 0xfed14000-0xfed17fff has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: iomem range 0xfed13000-0xfed13fff has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: system 00:01: iomem range 0xfed20000-0xfed8ffff has been reserved
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:01
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: IO window: disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: MEM window: disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: PREFETCH window: disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:02:00.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:03
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:02:00.0: IO window: 0x4000-0x4fff
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:02:00.0: MEM window: 0xc0200000-0xc02fffff
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:02:00.0: PREFETCH window: 0x000000c0500000-0x000000c05fffff
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:02
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.0: IO window: 0x4000-0x4fff
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.0: MEM window: 0xc0100000-0xc02fffff
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.0: PREFETCH window: 0x000000c0500000-0x000000c05fffff
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.4: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:04
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.4: IO window: disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.4: MEM window: 0xc0300000-0xc03fffff
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.4: PREFETCH window: disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.5: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:05
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.5: IO window: disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.5: MEM window: disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.5: PREFETCH window: disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1e.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:0a
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1e.0: IO window: 0x5000-0x5fff
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1e.0: MEM window: 0xc0400000-0xc04fffff
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1e.0: PREFETCH window: 0x000000c8000000-0x000000cfffffff
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.4: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci 0000:00:1c.5: PCI INT B -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
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    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: IP route cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: TCP reno registered
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Unpacking initramfs...
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Freeing initrd memory: 7221k freed
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Simple Boot Flag at 0x3c set to 0x1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: type=2000 audit(1250095030.473:1): initialized
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: msgmni has been set to 7894
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: io scheduler noop registered
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: io scheduler anticipatory registered
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: io scheduler deadline registered
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: io scheduler cfq registered (default)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PCI quirk: reroute interrupts for 0x8086:0x032c
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.103
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: 00:08: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: cpuidle: using governor ladder
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: cpuidle: using governor menu
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: TCP cubic registered
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: registered taskstats version 1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Initalizing network drop monitor service
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 464k freed
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usbcore: registered new device driver usb
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, io mem 0xc0000000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 23, io base 0x00003000
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x00003020
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x00003040
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: scsi0 : ata_piix
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: scsi1 : ata_piix
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aic94xx: Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA driver version 1.0.3 loaded
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aic94xx 0000:03:04.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x3080 irq 14
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x3088 irq 15
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aic94xx: found Adaptec AIC-9405W SAS/SATA Host Adapter, device 0000:03:04.0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: scsi2 : aic94xx
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aic94xx 0000:03:04.0: firmware: requesting aic94xx-seq.fw
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aic94xx: Failed to load sequencer firmware file aic94xx-seq.fw, error -2
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aic94xx: couldn't init seqs for 0000:03:04.0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aic94xx: couldn't init the chip
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aic94xx 0000:03:04.0: PCI INT A disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aic94xx: probe of 0000:03:04.0 failed with error -2
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ata1.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H55N, 1.03, max UDMA/66
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ata1.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55N 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: input: USB Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input2
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: generic-usb 0003:04B3:310C.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aufs 2-standalone.tree-20090601
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: loop: module loaded
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aufs test_add:240:mount[635]: uid/gid/perm /tmpfs/mnt/loop0 0/0/0755, 0/0/01777
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: aufs test_add:240:mount[648]: uid/gid/perm /tmpfs/mnt/loop2 0/0/0755, 0/0/01777
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: rtc_cmos 00:04: RTC can wake from S4
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: rtc_cmos 00:04: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: rtc0: alarms up to one month, y3k, 114 bytes nvram, hpet irqs
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: udev: starting version 141
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input3
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: intel_rng: FWH not detected
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input4
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input5
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: EDAC MC: Ver: 2.1.0 Jul 31 2009
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: tg3.c:v3.98 (February 25, 2009)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: tg3 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: tg3 0000:04:00.0: PME# disabled
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95721) rev 4101] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:11:25:a4:42:2f
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: eth0: attached PHY is 5750 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[1] TSOcap[1]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.05
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH7 or ICH7R TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x1060)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: processor ACPI_CPU:00: registered as cooling_device0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: processor ACPI_CPU:01: registered as cooling_device1
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: EDAC MC0: Giving out device to 'i3000_edac' 'i3000': DEV 0000:00:00.0
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: EDAC PCI0: Giving out device to module 'i3000_edac' controller 'EDAC PCI controller': DEV '0000:00:00.0' (POLLED)
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: lp: driver loaded but no devices found
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: parport_pc 00:0b: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 1 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
    Aug 12 16:37:33 archiso kernel: ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
    Aug 12 16:37:31 archiso init: Entering runlevel: 3
    Aug 12 16:38:08 archiso kernel: tg3 0000:04:00.0: PME# disabled
    Aug 12 16:38:09 archiso kernel: tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
    Aug 12 16:38:09 archiso kernel: tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
    Aug 12 16:42:52 archiso kernel: device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
    Aug 12 16:42:52 archiso kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: 4.14.0-ioctl (2008-04-23) initialised: [email protected]
    Aug 12 16:43:49 archiso kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
    Aug 12 16:43:50 archiso kernel: usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    Aug 12 16:43:50 archiso kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
    Aug 12 16:43:50 archiso kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
    Aug 12 16:43:50 archiso kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
    Aug 12 16:43:50 archiso kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
    Aug 12 16:43:55 archiso kernel: scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DT 101 II 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
    Aug 12 16:43:55 archiso kernel: scsi 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
    Aug 12 16:43:55 archiso kernel: Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
    Aug 12 16:43:55 archiso kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] 7876608 512-byte hardware sectors: (4.03 GB/3.75 GiB)
    Aug 12 16:43:55 archiso kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
    Aug 12 16:43:55 archiso kernel: sda: sda1
    Aug 12 16:43:55 archiso kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
    I'm following your last instructions  ... no results.

  • [SOLVED] (U)EFI dualboot Win7 Arch Linux - partitions gone - recovery?

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    TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013
    Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
    http://www.cgsecurity.org
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    Compilation date: 2013-08-06T08:42:31
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    /dev/sda: size 500118192 sectors
    /dev/sda: user_max 500118192 sectors
    /dev/sda: native_max 500118192 sectors
    /dev/sda: dco 500118192 sectors
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    Disk /dev/sda - 256 GB / 238 GiB - CHS 31130 255 63, sector size=512 - Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series, S/N:S12RNEAD322171L, FW:DXM04B0Q
    Disk /dev/sdb - 2013 MB / 1920 MiB - CHS 1022 62 62, sector size=512 - SMI USB DISK, FW:1100
    Disk /dev/sdc - 4210 MB / 4015 MiB - CHS 1020 130 62, sector size=512 - Generic Flash Disk, FW:8.07
    Disk /dev/mapper/arch_root-image - 1478 MB / 1410 MiB - 2887680 sectors, sector size=512
    Disk /dev/dm-0 - 1478 MB / 1410 MiB - 2887680 sectors, sector size=512
    Partition table type (auto): Intel
    Disk /dev/sda - 256 GB / 238 GiB - Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series
    Partition table type: EFI GPT
    New options :
    Dump : No
    Align partition: Yes
    Expert mode : Yes
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    hdr_lba_end=500118158
    hdr_lba_table=2
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    hdr_entsz=128
    hdr_size=92
    hdr_lba_self=500118191
    hdr_lba_alt=1 (expected 1)
    hdr_lba_start=34
    hdr_lba_end=500118158
    hdr_lba_table=500118159
    hdr_entries=128
    hdr_entsz=128
    Trying alternate GPT
    Current partition structure:
    Trying alternate GPT
    search_part()
    Disk /dev/sda - 256 GB / 238 GiB - CHS 31130 255 63
    FAT32 at 0/32/33
    FAT1 : 4110-6150
    FAT2 : 6151-8191
    start_rootdir : 8192 root cluster : 2
    Data : 8192-2097151
    sectors : 2097152
    cluster_size : 8
    no_of_cluster : 261120 (2 - 261121)
    fat_length 2041 calculated 2041
    set_FAT_info: name from BS used
    FAT32 at 0/32/33
    MS Data 2048 2099199 2097152 [NO NAME]
    FAT32, blocksize=4096, 1073 MB / 1024 MiB
    NTFS at 146/251/42
    filesystem size 249593856
    sectors_per_cluster 8
    mft_lcn 786432
    mftmirr_lcn 2
    clusters_per_mft_record -10
    clusters_per_index_record 1
    NTFS part_offset=1209008128, part_size=127792054272, sector_size=512
    NTFS partition cannot be added (part_offset<part_size).
    NTFS at 146/251/42
    filesystem size 249593856
    sectors_per_cluster 8
    mft_lcn 786432
    mftmirr_lcn 2
    clusters_per_mft_record -10
    clusters_per_index_record 1
    MS Data 2361344 251955199 249593856
    NTFS, blocksize=4096, 127 GB / 119 GiB
    recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=0/160, s_mnt_count=1318/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=8192
    recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096
    recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 5242880
    recover_EXT2: part_size 41943040
    MS Data 251955200 293898239 41943040
    ext4 blocksize=4096 Large file Sparse superblock, 21 GB / 20 GiB
    recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=0/80, s_mnt_count=1317/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=8192
    recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096
    recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 2621440
    recover_EXT2: part_size 20971520
    MS Data 293898240 314869759 20971520
    ext4 blocksize=4096 Large file Sparse superblock, 10 GB / 10 GiB
    recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=0/706, s_mnt_count=1317/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=8192
    recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096
    recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 23156049
    recover_EXT2: part_size 185248392
    MS Data 314869760 500118151 185248392
    ext4 blocksize=4096 Large file Sparse superblock, 94 GB / 88 GiB
    Results
    P MS Data 2048 2099199 2097152 [NO NAME]
    FAT32, blocksize=4096, 1073 MB / 1024 MiB
    P MS Data 2361344 251955199 249593856
    NTFS, blocksize=4096, 127 GB / 119 GiB
    P MS Data 251955200 293898239 41943040
    ext4 blocksize=4096 Large file Sparse superblock, 21 GB / 20 GiB
    P MS Data 293898240 314869759 20971520
    ext4 blocksize=4096 Large file Sparse superblock, 10 GB / 10 GiB
    P MS Data 314869760 500118151 185248392
    ext4 blocksize=4096 Large file Sparse superblock, 94 GB / 88 GiB
    interface_write()
    1 P MS Data 2048 2099199 2097152 [NO NAME]
    2 P MS Data 2361344 251955199 249593856
    3 P MS Data 251955200 293898239 41943040
    4 P MS Data 293898240 314869759 20971520
    5 P MS Data 314869760 500118151 185248392
    simulate write!
    TestDisk exited normally.
    ext4 blocksize=4096 Large file Sparse superblock, 94 GB / 88 GiB
    Now the question is: Can I - using testdisk or any other tool - recover those partitions successfully so I will be able to boot again afterwards? I tested and I could mark them as:
    P Primary
    Any help will be greately appreciated.
    Best regards
    Last edited by blablubb1234 (2014-07-08 09:20:08)

    Issue resolved If you care to know how, read on:
    Looking at the disk using gdisk was doing no good. Neither of the recovery options in gdisk did the trick.
    I then returned to testdisk and restored the partitions (successfully). However, afterwards I was greeted by shell telling me the root device was not found (seems like UUIDs get changed when one restores them using testdisk). Adjusting the PARTUUID for root in <EFI SYSTEM PARTIITION>/boot/refind_linux.conf did the trick and I could boot up Archlinux again.
    Windows 7 still didn't boot telling me the required device was inaccessible (probably wrong UUID, too). I could however not restore/edit Windows' BCD using bcdedit, see my post Status: 0xc0000225 boot selection failed; required device inaccessible:
    To make a long story short: Removing bcd and running autorecovery from withing Windows RE successfully created a new bcd. Unfortunately, Windows writes its backup bootloader at <EFI SYSTEM PARTITION>/boot/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi. This file originally was a copy of refind_x64.efi which I need to put at that location to be able to dualboot. After chrooting to my Arch system I could restore bootx64.efi, create a new fstab and everything is running fine now again.
    Best regards and thanks for the help.

  • Installing Multiple Operating Systems with grub and Arch Linux

    NOTE: Please keep in mind that there are many different ways to achieve this same result using various loop and ramdisk methods, read this with a separate window to jot down your comments and suggestions... this is ongoing for me so any help would be appreciated!
    Read the full article at Install Multiple Os without cds
    This is my first post and I plan on making this topic an official HOWTO with www.tldp.org.
    I have been into the computer security scene since 1990, but I realized that I had very little experience with the various LInux, Unix, and alternative Operating systems out there.
    I have a CD-RW drive but being a struggling computer security researcher I had no money for blank cd-recordables.  What follows is how I managed to install various operating systems on my computer (1 hard drive) without having to burn to a CD the ISO and then boot from that.
    I first partitioned my 120GB harddrive into 10 partitions, the 2nd partition is a small swap and the last partition is extra large because it holds all the ISO images..
    I then wrote a small shell script to automatically download (I love wget!)  the following.
    OpenBSD
    IpCOP
    Libranet
    Arch-Linux
    Fire
    Local Area Security
    Packet Master
    Devil-Linux
    FreeBSD
    Knoppix
    Helix
    Gentoo
    Yoper-Linux
    NetBSD
    RedHat
    Slackware
    The script also downloaded Installation manuals and md5 checksums.. (let me know if I should post... its pretty unsophisticated
    I installed Slackware (personal favorite) on hda1 using my last blank CD-R, note that I do not have a separate boot partitino.  (Should I?).  I also installed grub on the MBR.  I love grub, if you read through the man pages and all info you can find about grub, you can learn a whole lot.  Grub has much more features and capability than lilo, even though lilo comes installed by default with slack.
    I organize my kernel situation as follows...  In my /boot directory, I mkdir KERNEL, CONFIG, MAP, INITRD and that is a good way for me to keep my kernels and everything organized..  Another good way is a separate dir for each new kernel. 
    Since Arch-Linux is a solid distro, I'll use that as a first example.
    Here is the Arch-Linux section of my shell script
    goge Arch-Linux
    $w http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/archlinux/arch-0.6.iso
    $w http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/archlinux/arch-0.6.md5sum
    $w http://www.archlinux.org/docs/en/guide/install/arch-install-guide.html
    md55
    cat arch-0.6.md5sum
    md5sum arch-0.6.iso
    md55
    The first thing to do is to mount the downloaded ISO image so we can use it as if it were an actual CD.
    mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 cdimage /mnt/cdrom
    Where cdimage= the ISO image.   EX. /usr/local/src/ISO/Linux/Arch-Linux/arch-0.6.iso
    This mounts the iso as /mnt/cdrom.
    Next you need to copy /mnt/cdrom to a separate partition for the booting process.  So mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda9.  ( I prefer reiserfs or even XFS to ext but if you use something other than ext2 you could run into some problems because some of the installation kernels and initrds don't include support for reiserfs and so can't recognize the files.  Although you could use mkinitrd to create a new initrd with reiserfs support, that might be pushin it IMO...   I use the 9th partition consistently for this.  I know there is a "right" way to copy the /mnt/cdrom files so everything stays the way it is supposed too, using tar or cpio, but I'm lazy so I just do cp -rp.   
    (What is the tar or cpio commands to copy with correct permissions etc??)
    So you mount the 9th partition as whatever, say /mnt/hd and then copy the files.  Now what?
    Now edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file to include the specific options to boot arch-linux installation. 
    A good idea is to find the isolinux.cfg file somewhere on the distro cd, this will tell you what to include in the menu.lst.
    Here is the section in my menu.lst
    title Arch Install
    root (hd0,8)
    kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 root=/dev/rd/0
    initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img
    This should be self-explanatory.  The root (hd0,8) is pointing to partition 9.  So the rest of the commands start from partition 9. 
    When you experience problems, remember you can always edit the grub boot options by typing 'e' and then edit the section.  Also, a good idea is to include several variations in your menu.lst so you can easily try other ways to boot efficiently.  And, remember to read up on all the installation guides that come with your distro, specifically, hard-disk installs. 
    There are special cases, Gentoo, has a semi-new compressed filesystem called squashfs.  BTW, this is AWESOME, so check it out.  It has to be compiled into the kernel, so some work is in order, but use this recompile to optimize your kernel.  You can get the squashfs patch for almost any kernel.  I use the latest stable 2.6 kernel.  Squashfs is incredible and although I don't think you need it to install from ISO, you do need it to expand the livecd.squashfs filesystem that comes with the cd.
    Heres a sample Gentoo section from my menu.lst
    title Gentoo Install
    root (hd0,8)
    kernel /isolinux/gentoo root=/dev/ram0
    initrd=/isolinux/gentoo.igz init=/linuxrc acpi=off looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs cdroot vga=791 splash=silent
    A nother' tip is the shell that is provided if you experience problems, typically busybox or ash.  The key tools to get you going from here is mount and chroot.  Sometimes you will need to manually create a simulated file system and then chroot into it.  For instance, you might have to create boot, etc, bin, directories on the target partition. 
    I generally install each OS onto the next partition (careful of the logical partition) and add it to my menu.lst after install.  A good idea is after installation, copy the kernel and initrd(if there is one) to the slackware(or whatever) boot partition on hda1.  I copy kernels to /boot/KERNEL/ and initrd's to /boot/INITRD, then menu.lst is more organized...
    You then need to add an updated section to your menu.lst (just comment out the install section for later)
    Here is the finished arch-linux section from menu.lst
    title Arch Linux 6
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 ro root=/dev/hdc3
    This doesn't use my convenient boot/KERNEL/vmlinuz26 as you can tell by setting the root to partition 3.
    ***NOTE: Make a backup of MBR using dd and save to floppy, also backup the partition table to floppy, using cfdisk or parted.  And boot disks (I use 1 with grub, and 1 with slack, and tomsbootdisk) will invariably come in handy.  Tomsbootdisk is recommended, and make the grub boot disk when you install grub.  install to floppy.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    The final result after some fun experimenting, is when I boot, I have a cool grub boot screen come up with the option to boot into whatever OS I want, this is handy for multiple reasons.  One good thing to do after this is to port scan and vuln scan each OS, after you update of course.  Write this stuff down and you will know the weaknesses/strengths of the various OS's. 
    I can boot a custom Firewall, snort, or multiple honeypots using this procedure, as well as a graphical kde environment with a kernel optimized for graphics and my processor/architecture, or an environment devoted to forensics or even an environment suitable for programming.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    P.S. Some of the cooler alternative operating systems are BeOS 5, EOS, ER_OS, V2_OS, and my personal favorite Menuet.  Menuet is 100% assembly graphical operating system that fits on a floppy.  Its f'in money!
    This should be a good enough example to get you started, this kind of thing should be learned and not just copied... Knowing how to do this stuff could prove to be exceptionally useful...

    Start by reading all the articles built-in on your Mac - Help > Mac Help, search "printer sharing."
    http://desk.stinkpot.org:8080/tricks/index.php/2008/04/how-to-print-to-a-cups-se rver-from-mac-os-x/
    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080324224027152&query=share%2Bpri nter
    http://members.cox.net/18james/osxprintersharing.html
    http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-56940.html

  • [SOLVED]System Hang in Arch Linux

    I have tried distributions like ubuntu and fedora in hope for finding a stable system . So I move on to Arch Linux
    But this problem also exist on Arch. While using my Arch Linux (including ubuntu and fedora) my system hangs with a black screen with something written on the whole screen which cannot be pasted here as my system hangs and I have to push power button to restart.
    So I check my errors.log file and found these errors
    Jul  8 22:59:24 localhost kernel: [    1.680013] ata3: softreset failed (device not ready)
    Jul  8 22:59:24 localhost kernel: [    7.298612] SP5100 TCO timer: mmio address 0xfec000f0 already in use
    Jul  8 22:59:31 localhost kdm_greet[792]: Cannot load /usr/share/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory
    I have a HCL K21 pdc notebook
    Note: In Ubuntu my notebook start with ata1: softreset failed error at boot time
    Most often this error occur while watching videos or listening music with VLC
    Last edited by Manuj19 (2011-07-09 10:13:24)

    ewaller wrote:It might be better to just post the output of lspci -nn  It will tell us a great deal more about the hardware related to the PCI bus, including specific chip set identifiers.
    Thanks for suggestion
    Here is output of lspci -nn
    00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:5a31] (rev 01)
    00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a3f]
    00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a36]
    00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a37]
    00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a38]
    00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a39]
    00:12.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA [1002:4380]
    00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) [1002:4387]
    00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) [1002:4388]
    00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) [1002:4389]
    00:13.3 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) [1002:438a]
    00:13.4 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) [1002:438b]
    00:13.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) [1002:4386]
    00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 13)
    00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE [1002:438c]
    00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383]
    00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge [1002:438d]
    00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
    01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] [1002:5a62]
    02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
    08:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II [1180:0476] (rev b3)
    08:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0552] (rev 08)
    08:01.2 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 17)
    08:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 08)
    08:07.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
    Last edited by Manuj19 (2011-07-09 07:20:08)

  • [SOLVED] Ndiswrapper, NetworkManager 0.7 and 64-bit Arch Linux

    Hi there!
    I am having problems configuring my wireless card. I know I have to use Ndiswrapper, and this is what I have tried to do; however, it didn't go quite well.
    This is rather odd because it worked perfectly in the 32-bit version of Arch Linux, but now it doesn't work.
    So, here comes the code.
    valandil ~ $ lspci | grep Network
    0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
    I really use ndiswrapper and have already installed what I think is the proper driver (it seems that the list the official ndiswrapper site had has somehow disappeared.
    sudo ndiswrapper -l
    Password:
    bcmwl5 : driver installed
    device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: ssb)
    Here's iwconfig:
    valandil ~ $ iwconfig
    lo no wireless extensions.
    eth0 no wireless extensions.
    wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
    wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
    Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
    Tx-Power=0 dBm
    Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
    Power Management:off
    Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
    Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
    Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
    I use NetworkManager 0.7 and have configured properly:
    rc.conf:
    # /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
    # LOCALIZATION
    # LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
    # HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
    # USEDIRECTISA: use direct I/O requests instead of /dev/rtc for hwclock
    # TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
    # KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
    # CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
    # CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
    # USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
    LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
    HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
    USEDIRECTISA="no"
    TIMEZONE="America/Vancouver"
    KEYMAP="cf"
    CONSOLEFONT=
    CONSOLEMAP=
    USECOLOR="yes"
    # HARDWARE
    # MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
    # MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
    # MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
    # NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
    MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
    #MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
    MODULES=(fuse ndiswrapper fglrx !b44 !mii bcm43xx !snd_pcsp snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore !pcspkr)
    # Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
    USELVM="no"
    # NETWORKING
    # HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
    HOSTNAME="cipher"
    # Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
    # Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
    # Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
    # - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
    # - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
    # DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
    # Wireless: See network profiles below
    #eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
    eth0="dhcp"
    INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 !wlan0)
    # Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
    # Declare each route then list in ROUTES
    # - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
    gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"
    ROUTES=(!gateway)
    # Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
    # if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
    # - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
    # - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
    # Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
    # This now requires the netcfg package
    #NETWORKS=(main)
    # DAEMONS
    # Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
    # - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
    # - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
    DAEMONS=(@stbd httpd !network syslog-ng netfs crond alsa hal dhcdbd networkmanager fam gdm)
    hosts file :
    # /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
    #<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
    127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost cipher
    # End of file
    /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf:
    GNU nano 2.0.9 File: /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
    [main]
    plugins=keyfile
    [keyfile]
    hostname=cipher
    I hope you can solve this problem; wireless is really crucial.
    Thanks for any help,
    Last edited by valandil (2012-05-02 18:27:09)

    Alleluia!!!
    I think I will write a new rule for myself to follow :
    Thou shalt never use ndiswrapper again.
    Thanks a lot, wonder, and thanks to you too, Xyne.
    FYI, I tried to use something else than ndiswrapper before, but it didn't yield satisfying results. Anyway, thanks.

  • [SOLVED] Arch Linux Duke (2007) Fails to Boot

    Folks, I have a unique and challenging problem that has exhausted my Arch Linux skills, and so I am now turning to you.
    I have a vintage Pentium Pro 200 system (that’s 200 MHz folks! – 200 MHz 686 architecture – the original 686!), two CPUs, running a dual boot between Windows NT 4.0 and Arch Linux Duke (2007). It has 512 MB of RAM and a 120 GB hard drive, partitioned up between Windows NT and Linux. I built this system new in 2007, hence the dated version of Arch.  It has run like a charm all these years, granted not getting that much use. After about a year of no use at all, I fired the system up last week to help with a little research for a blog post I was writing on networking Windows NT 4.0 and Mac OS 8.6. Windows NT 4.0 fired right up with no issue, and after I was done testing what needed to be tested I tried to boot over to Arch.
    After a year of disuse, Arch unexpectedly and stubbornly refused to boot. The boot process started up just fine, but towards the end, it declared that it could not mount the root file system on the root device and took a kernel panic and stopped. My Arch skills have gotten a bit rusty in the last few years, but I dusted them off and went to work. My guess was a file system or superblock error. Arch wouldn’t boot, but I dragged out my trusty RIPLinux 2.9 Rescue Live CD and fired it up. It came right up and ran, and I was able to mount the Arch partition and view all the files… everything seemed to be there; it just wouldn’t boot. Windows NT 4.0 AND RIPLinux both boot and run on the machine, so the hardware is fine as well.
    A little information on the disk layout. Windows NT 4.0 is in the first partition on the hard drive. The extended partition has a second Windows NT 4.0 partition (sort of a /home partition for Windows NT 4.0), followed by the main Arch partition (the one I am trying to boot), followed by a swap partition and then the largest partition, which I use to share data between Arch and Windows NT 4.0 (I have loaded an ext2/3 driver into Windows NT 4.0 and it happily accesses the Linux partitions on the box).
    RIPLinux’s e2fsck did find some issues with the Arch partition and I had it repair them all. I checked again afterwards that all the files were still there, and they were. With the partition now known to be clean, and the superblock repaired from one of the backups, all should have been well. However, Arch still wouldn’t (and still won’t) boot.
    RIPLinux has a kind of a chain loader function, so I had it attempt to start up Arch for me. However, this was flummoxed by the fact that Arch addresses all my hard drive partitions as /dev/sdax and RIPLinux addresses them as /dev/hdax. Hence, without a common language, it was hard to get the one to start the other. Still, using this function, I have been able to get a crippled version of Arch running on the machine again. No modules had been loaded, and so it couldn’t do almost anything, but there it was (and is), Arch Linux Duke, at the CLI level. From there, I can see all the files, I can move freely in and out of my user account and the root account, but I can’t make the thing actually boot properly.
    If you have read this far, you are a trooper.  Summarizing what I know, the hardware is good, the file system is clean, the superblock is good, I can mount it cleanly from a live CD and I can chain load a crippled version of Arch. Here is the boot process blow-by-blow. When I try to do a normal boot, the Windows NT 4.0 loader passes control to the Lilo boot sector I have placed on hda1 (sda1 in Duke’s parlance). Lilo takes over, present a menu and when I select Duke, takes off. Arch Linux Duke starts to boot. It gets a good long way along, all the way along to:
    :: Loading udev events                [Pass]
    :: Mount root Read-only
    :: Checking file systems
    This is where it stops.
    The next thing I see is:
    /dev/sda6
    The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else) then the superblock is corrupt and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
        E2fsck –b 8193 <device>
    I then get a sort of character based splash screen that says
    **********FILE SYSTEM CHECK FAILED ****************************
    *   Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root file system
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    *   shell, the system will reboot automatically
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       label = ArchLinux-Duke
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       read-only
    I am stumped. Thanks in advance for any and all pointers you may be able to offer.
    Last edited by mac57 (2014-06-02 17:42:21)

    Folks, thanks for all your helpful comments, and I wanted to report back to you that I finally overcame the issue, and ArchLinux-Duke (2007) is once again executing flawlessly on my old Pentium Pro 200 system. I won't bother reporting here all the blind allies I went down as I tried to figure out what was wrong, but in the end, literally moments before I was about to give up and overwrite my Arch installation with a new Linux variant (antiX seemed well suited for such old and low power hardware), my attention was drawn to a note I had made in my files back in 2007 about a problem with similar symptoms. In that case, I had just deleted ZenWalk Linux from the hard drive (both Arch and Zen had been on the drive), and merged several partitions to make use of the newly free space. This had changed Arch's view of the drive lettering, and what had been its /dev/sddx root device was now /dev/sdcx. Arch failed to boot, throwing off the same errors I was seeing now. I wish I had recalled that note a month or so ago! It would have saved me a lot of work and a lot of frustration.
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  • [SOLVED] Installing Windows XP after Arch Linux

    I'm not sure at all where to post this, so I've decided to do it here since I have the problem on a laptop... Please move if it should be somewhere else.
    I installed Arch Linux on my new laptop a month ago or so, and am very pleased to have found the very kind of distro I've been looking for. However, I'm having trouble with my graphics (either wine doesn't support it, or the drivers don't have 2D/3D acceleration), and now I want to install Windows XP next to Arch Linux.
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    Memory: 2GB DDR2
    Graphics: Intel 4500MHD
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    Last edited by Noxic (2010-05-29 18:44:32)

    Sounds like something I'll want to do. Where did you download the drivers? Do I have to follow some guide? Thanks for the tip
    EDIT:
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    Last edited by Noxic (2010-05-29 12:40:33)

  • [SOLVED] Arch Linux on Macbook - Can't fix Screen Resolution

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    Identifier "X.org Configured"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
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    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
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    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
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    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName "Monitor Model"
    EndSection
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    Depth 1
    EndSubSection
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    Modes "1280x800"
    Depth 4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Modes "1280x800"
    Depth 8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Modes "1280x800"
    Depth 15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Modes "1280x800"
    Depth 16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Modes "1280x800"
    Depth 24
    EndSubSection
    EndSection
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    Last edited by meolson (2009-09-23 04:44:23)

    Ok.  I figured it out.  I found this forum:
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    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
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    Last edited by Jhon (2014-09-28 16:45:38)

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