System no longer boots

Hello all. System will not boot and before I go spending more money on pointless items, I was hoping to get some feedback, please.
Here are current specs on system:
MSI K8T Neo2 FIR - AMI BIOS 9.4 Athlon 64 X2 4600+ PIB
Antec NeoPower 480 +5V/38A +12V1/18A +12V2/15A +3.3V/30A
Kingston Value Ram 2x512 Matched Pair DDR400
CD-R/RW & DVD+RW WD 250g IDE
BFG 7800GS OC Sony SDM-HS94P 19" LCD
Audigy 2 XP Pro
The upgrades on this system include the X2 and the graphics card. I know, I know, the power supply may very well be the issue, but please let me detail what's happened and if everyone still thinks the PSU is it, I'll go for a new one.
Everything ran fine for at least a month. Most resource hungry app I run is probably EQII. Towards the end of last week I had a couple of complete crashes during game play and then on Saturday morning the system failed to boot. I do have power as the case fans, CPU fan and GPU fan and various lights do go on. It seemed like a hard drive failure to me, so I got a new one (Best Buy! OUCH! the price we pay if we want it that day) and it started up great. I got windows loaded on the new drive, updated everything and was playing and working fine. This was Saturday night and Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon...not happening. I'm back to a blank screen and lots of fans whirring and a few lights flashing but nothing else. So, my questions:
1. Is it possible that I somehow blew a second hard drive?
2. Was it not the hard drive at all but something else?
3. Will a new PSU solve the problem and will my original hard drive still work?
4. Did Amelia Earhardt get abducted by aliens?
Thank you for your time and patience.
MEM

Hans;
Thank you for the reply. Say hiya to Amelia for me. Does this mean you're an alien?
Ok, I tried using bootable CD and no go.
I don't really have a simpler graphics card around to try that. So that test may not happen.
I can try with one dimm when I get home (I'm at work atm.)
I also thought about putting the drive into another system and will try that also later today or tomorrow morning.
D-Bracket: I will have to watch that again. It really didn't make sense to me as the lights went through a lot of the steps then came to a halt at what I think was BIOS Sign on. Someone did suggest to me that I might have a virus, which may be why the second hard drive failed eventually. But I'm not sure about that and not sure what can be done about that unless clearing CMOS would take care of it.
So, any new thoughts?
MEM

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Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) CPU: After generic identify, caps: afe9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000180 00000000 00000000
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) CPU: After vendor identify, caps: afe9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000180 00000000 00000000
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) CPU: After all inits, caps: afe9fbbf 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000180 00000000 00000000
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Intel machine check architecture supported.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) checking if image is initramfs... it is
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Freeing initrd memory: 404k freed
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c30)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz stepping 06
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) SMP motherboard not detected.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) lapic max_delta_ns: 1345393639
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Event source pit new caps set: 01
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Event source lapic configured with caps set: 06
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Brought up 1 CPUs
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) migration_cost=0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) NET: Registered protocol family 16
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: bus type pci registered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=2
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Setting up standard PCI resources
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI Error (evregion-0303): No handler for Region [ECOR] (dff2e63c) [EmbeddedControl] [20060127]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI Error (exfldio-0279): Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler [20060127]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI Error (psparse-0517): Method parse/execution failed [_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_.ACS_] (Node dff27900), AE_NOT_EXIST
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI Error (psparse-0517): Method parse/execution failed [_SB_.AC__._INI] (Node dff27420), AE_NOT_EXIST
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI Error (evregion-0303): No handler for Region [ECOR] (dff2e63c) [EmbeddedControl] [20060127]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI Error (exfldio-0279): Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler [20060127]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI Error (psparse-0517): Method parse/execution failed [_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_.BATS] (Node dff278e0), AE_NOT_EXIST
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI Error (psparse-0517): Method parse/execution failed [_SB_.BAT0._STA] (Node dff245c0), AE_NOT_EXIST
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI Error (uteval-0158): Method execution failed [_SB_.BAT0._STA] (Node dff245c0), AE_NOT_EXIST
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI quirk: region 0500-053f claimed by ICH4 GPIO
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Bus #03 (-#06) is hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#02) (try 'pci=assign-busses')
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Bus #07 (-#0a) is hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#02) (try 'pci=assign-busses')
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 28) interrupt mode.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0.P0P2._PRT]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 *4 5 6 7 11 12)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *10 12)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *5 6 10)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 6 11) *0, disabled.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 7) *0, disabled.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 4 7) *0, disabled.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 4 6 *10 12)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: PnP ACPI init
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) SCSI subsystem initialized
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x480-0x48f has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x5c0-0x5cf has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x540-0x55f has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x400-0x47f could not be reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x480-0x48f has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x500-0x53f has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x4c0-0x4cf has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: d000-dfff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) MEM window: ff800000-ff8fffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PREFETCH window: ce900000-de9fffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Bus 3, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:01.0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: 00001000-000010ff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: 00001400-000014ff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PREFETCH window: 32000000-33ffffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) MEM window: 34000000-35ffffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:01.1
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: 00001800-000018ff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: 00001c00-00001cff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PREFETCH window: 36000000-37ffffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) MEM window: 38000000-39ffffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: 1000-1fff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) MEM window: ff900000-ff9fffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PREFETCH window: dea00000-deafffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1e.0 (0106 -> 0107)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0003)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 4
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: setting IRQ 4 as level-triggered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:01.0 to 64
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.1[B] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:01.1 to 64
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) NET: Registered protocol family 2
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) TCP reno registered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) apm: overridden by ACPI.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Initializing Cryptographic API
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) io scheduler noop registered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) io scheduler anticipatory registered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) io scheduler deadline registered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: ATI Technologies Inc., P10 , 01.00 (OEM: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600 )
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: VBE version: 2.0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5680
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c56ee, set palette = c00c5728
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: pmi: ports = d810 d816 d854 d838 d83c d85c d800 d804 d8b0 d8b2 d8b4
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: no monitor limits have been set
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0880000, using 6144k, total 65536k
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (94 C)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f12:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) TCP bic registered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) NET: Registered protocol family 1
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) NET: Registered protocol family 17
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Suspend2 Core.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Suspend2 Compression Driver loading.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Event source pit disabled
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Event source lapic configured with caps set: 08
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hrtimers: Switched to high resolution mode CPU 0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Suspend2 Encryption Driver loading.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Suspend2 Swap Writer loading.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Suspend2 FileWriter loading.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI wakeup devices:
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) SMBS MODM P0P2 CBC1 USB1 USB2 USB3
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ICH4: chipset revision 3
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Probing IDE interface ide0...
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 4.6, id: 0x925ea1, caps: 0x80471b/0x0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
Then I have to press enter and the powerbutton (asus M6) a few times, and then, a line at a time a couple of messages appear, then after "udev events" has passed, boot proceeds normally.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hda: IC25N060ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Probing IDE interface ide1...
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hdc: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-830S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hda: max request size: 512KiB
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/7884KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hda: cache flushes supported
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5> hda3 hda4
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) usbcore: registered new driver hub
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 431 MBytes.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.26.18 [Jun 22 2006] on minor 0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) usbcore: registered new driver usblp
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Capability LSM initialized
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) fuse init (API version 7.6)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) NET: Registered protocol family 23
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc-ircc, chip->init
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: Device 00:07 disabled.
I am using mkinitcpio already: /boot/grub/menu.lst:
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26beyond root=/dev/hda4 ro
initrd /kernel26beyond.img
my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf:
MODULES=""
BINARIES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide filesystems"
I tried removing scsi and sata, since my root is on an ide disk. But the problem persists.
also recreating an image using mkinitcpio or reinstalling the kernel26beyond package using pacman doesn't help.
Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong and how this problem might be resolved.
It seems like a trivial issue since the systems basically works fine otherwise. However, I can't figure it out by myself, I have tried for a week.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure if this will help you, but I suddenly was having a lot of trouble booting. My system would just freeze with a blinking cursor. I thought it had something to do with my floppy drive because if I changed the boot priority in my bios to boot from the hard disk 1st, the system would boot but would hang for a very long time in areas, and as long as 5 minutes loading uevents. I suspected this was a udev problem.
I issued a few commands to reset udev, thinking maybe recent updates didn't take effect, which did the trick...
# udevtrigger
# udevcontrol reload_rules
After that, everything is back to normal. I'm still learning about udev and I'm still fuzzy about a lot of the techy stuff.

After installing Leopard, my G4 will no longer boot in OS 9.22. (Classic still works, but I need it to boot in OS 9.) Any clues about what the Leopard installer might have done to my machine that rendered OS 9 boot unusable? What can I do to fix it?

After installing Leopard, my G4 will no longer boot in OS 9.22.
(Classic still works, but I need it to boot in OS 9.)
Any clues about what the Leopard installer might have done to my machine that rendered OS 9 boot unusable? (And what can I do to fix it?)
Details:
G4 Gigabit Ethernet
Boot ROM version: 4.2.8fl
Accelerator card added: 1.6 MHz
1.5 Gig Ram
I have erased the partition that had Leopard installed on it.
I zapped the pram.
In Open Firmware, I "reset-nvram", and then "reset-all"
I tried to reinstall G4 FW Update 4.2.8, but that must be done when booted from OS 9, and of course, that's the problem: it won't boot into 9.
I tried restarting from 9.2.1 DVD.
I tried restarting from an external firewire drive containing OS 9.2.2.
I tried moving a fresh OS 9.2.2 system folder into an empty partition on an internal hard drive. (Partition was created WITH OS 9 drivers installed.)
All attempts to boot into OS 9 give me the same results - grey screen - no spinning beach ball, no icons or logos - just a blank grey screen.
This machine still works fine in OS 10.3 and 10.4, and it worked fine for many years booting into OS 9, until I installed Leopard, and I haven't been able to boot into OS 9 since then, although I have done considerable research online and tried many things.
I have since learned that this machine does not support Leopard - 10.5. Fine, but how did it break 9.2.2?
Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks for checking in, BDAQua.
Problem solved.
In the docs that came with my Powerlogix accelerator card, I found this sentence buried:
"If you reset the PRAM, the NVRAM code for OS9 compatibility is cleared, so you will have to boot from the Firmawre Update CD and perform this process again in order to boot in OS9."
The "process" it's referring to is the process of setting up the NVRAM for booting into OS9 from the CD.
Fortunately, I was able to find the disk, and it worked as expected. I can now, once again boot into OS9.
Conclusion: My (unadvised) attempt to load Leopard on this old machine apparently reset the PRAM on the accelerator card and cleared the NVRAM code for OS9 boot. Although I did attempt to reset the NVRAM via Open Firmware, it did not reset it on the accelerator card.
So, thank you BDAQua, for your "Ah yes" . . . that's all I needed to steer me in the right direction.
Gratefully,
tupester

Can no longer boot into Mavericks 10.9.5

My problem is that I can no longer boot into Mavericks 10.9.5 on my mid-2012 Macbook Pro. The problem arose suddenly without any known major changes to my software or hardware. The booting process freezes with the apple visible and the circle below it spinning endlessly. Every several seconds, the display very briefly gets brighter, then the circle starts spinning again and the process repeats itself. It never gets to the user login screen.
Other than keeping various apps up to date, I don't recall any recent major operating system or other major software updates, nor have I made any recent hardware changes. I've searched a multitude of threads and and tried any number of fixes without success. Here's what I've tried so far (and probably a few more that I can't remember): (1) Repaired the startup disk with both Recovery HD -> Disk Utility and single-user mode -> /sbin/fsck -fy; (2) Repaired the startup disk permissions with Recovery HD -> Disk Utility; (3) Reloaded the Mavericks 10.9.5 operating system twice; (4) deleted /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist; (5) reset PRAM and NVRAM; (6) booted with "D" pressed and ran the Apple hardware test, which ran for about 40 minutes and reported no problems; (7) tried booting from a bootable clone of Mavericks 10.9.5 on an external hard drive, which also failed at the same place with the apple showing and the circle below it spinning endlessly. ***Oddly, I am able to boot from a bootable clone of Mountain Lion on an external hard drive. It's Mavericks that won't boot.***
Here is the part of the system log the repeats itself over and over and seems to correlate with the repeated failed attempts to complete the booting process. Any help would be appreciated beyond words:
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Server is starting up
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Session 256 retained (2 references)
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Session 256 released (1 references)
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Session 256 retained (2 references)
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: init_page_flip: page flip mode is on
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Found 54 modes for display 0x00000000 [54, 0]
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Found 1 modes for display 0x00000000 [1, 0]
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Found 51 modes for display 0x00000000 [51, 0]
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Found 1 modes for display 0x00000000 [1, 0]
May 2 12:49:01 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro kernel[0]: IOHIDSystem::registerScreenGated: Screen 0 recycled from pid 343
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: mux_initialize: Mode is dynamic
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Found 54 modes for display 0x00000000 [54, 0]
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Found 1 modes for display 0x00000000 [1, 0]
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Found 51 modes for display 0x00000000 [51, 0]
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Found 1 modes for display 0x00000000 [1, 0]
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: WSMachineUsesNewStyleMirroring: true
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: MPServiceForDisplayDevice: Invalid device alias (0)
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x04248378: GL mask 0x10; bounds (0, 0)[2560 x 1440], 51 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, Vendor 610, Model 9227, S/N 162f0ab5, Unit 4, Rotation 0
UUID 0x3ef17c2fc9ab601507ec022fbd95576c
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x003f003d: GL mask 0x2; bounds (0, 0)[4096 x 2160], 2 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 1, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x003f0041: GL mask 0x20; bounds (0, 0)[0 x 0], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 5, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x003f003f: GL mask 0x8; bounds (0, 0)[0 x 0], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 3, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x04280142: GL mask 0x5; bounds (2560, 0)[1680 x 1050], 54 modes available
Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model a005, S/N 0, Unit 2, Rotation 0
UUID 0xde23f9c1cf7b915b2afe83aecee77b54
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: WSSetWindowTransform: Singular matrix
May 2 12:49:01 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x04248378: GL mask 0x10; bounds (0, 0)[2560 x 1440], 51 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, Vendor 610, Model 9227, S/N 162f0ab5, Unit 4, Rotation 0
UUID 0x3ef17c2fc9ab601507ec022fbd95576c
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x003f003d: GL mask 0x2; bounds (3584, 0)[1 x 1], 2 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 1, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x003f0041: GL mask 0x20; bounds (3585, 0)[1 x 1], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 5, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x003f003f: GL mask 0x8; bounds (3586, 0)[1 x 1], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 3, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x04280142: GL mask 0x5; bounds (435, -1050)[1680 x 1050], 54 modes available
Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model a005, S/N 0, Unit 2, Rotation 0
UUID 0xde23f9c1cf7b915b2afe83aecee77b54
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: CGXPerformInitialDisplayConfiguration
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]:   Display 0x04248378: Unit 4; Vendor 0x610 Model 0x9227 S/N 372181685 Dimensions 23.50 x 13.23; online enabled, Bounds (0,0)[2560 x 1440], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]:   Display 0x003f003d: Unit 1; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (3584,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]:   Display 0x003f0041: Unit 5; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (3585,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]:   Display 0x003f003f: Unit 3; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (3586,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]:   Display 0x04280142: Unit 2; Alias(2, 0x5); Vendor 0x610 Model 0xa005 S/N 0 Dimensions 13.03 x 8.15; online enabled built-in, Bounds (435,-1050)[1680 x 1050], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: CGXMuxBoot: Boot normal
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01024400, GL mask 0x00000003, accelerator 0x00004f2f, unit 0, caps QEX|MIPMAP, vram 1024 MB
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01024400, GL mask 0x00000003, texture max 16384, viewport max {16384, 16384}, extensions FPRG|NPOT|GLSL|FLOAT
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01022727, GL mask 0x0000003c, accelerator 0x00004907, unit 2, caps QEX|MIPMAP, vram 1024 MB
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01022727, GL mask 0x0000003c, texture max 16384, viewport max {16384, 16384}, extensions FPRG|NPOT|GLSL|FLOAT
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: GLCompositor enabled for tile size [256 x 256]
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: CGXGLInitMipMap: mip map mode is on
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local loginwindow[353]: **DMPROXY** Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x04248378: Unit 4; ColorProfile { 2, "Thunderbolt Display"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Display 0x04280142: Unit 2; ColorProfile { 3, "Color LCD"}; TransferTable (256, 12)
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local launchctl[356]: launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local launchctl[356]: com.apple.findmymacmessenger: Already loaded
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[23]: Session 100021 created
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local UserEventAgent[357]: Failed to copy info dictionary for bundle /System/Library/UserEventPlugins/alfUIplugin.plugin
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local airportd[71]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “schuyler”. Bailing on auto-join.
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local loginwindow[353]: Setting the initial value of the magsave brightness level 1
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local loginwindow[353]: Login Window Started Security Agent
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local ManagedClient[362]: ApplePersistence=YES
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local SecurityAgent[363]: Failed to create agent mechanism, failing authentication!
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local com.apple.authd[84]: engine[353]: error creating mechanism agent
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local com.apple.authd[84]: engine[353]: evaluate returned -60008 returning errAuthorizationInternal
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local loginwindow[353]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local loginwindow[353]: ERROR | -[LoginApp performAuthPluginRequest:] | AuthorizationRef doesn't have a username. Exiting.
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: CGXRestartSessionWorkspace: session workspace exited for session 256 (on console)
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Session 256 released (1 references)
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: Session 256 released (0 references)
May 2 12:49:01 SCH-MacBookPro.local WindowServer[354]: loginwindow connection closed; closing server.
May 2 12:49:03 SCH-MacBookPro com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.loginwindow): Throttling respawn: Will start in 1 seconds
May 2 12:49:04 SCH-MacBookPro.local loginwindow[364]: Login Window Application Started
May 2 12:49:04 SCH-MacBookPro com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.WindowServer): Throttling respawn: Will start in 7 seconds

Hi
You got a prob I think, if you can boot a windows, MSconfig, startup options might restore the boot files.Only other thing is to try and either load a new windows and let it setup a boot file, or perhaps a win98 startup disk, and fdisk, then set active partiton, which will set an MBR. But that would leave a load of work to do, I think I'd opt for an install of XP, and let it repair existing installation, and make a new boot file.
Hope you don't need the info on disks. If you do, I would install another HDD, load XP, then copy original Disk to save place.
Good luck
Jocko

Windows 7 no longer boots after upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion

I got a late 2011 MacBook Pro, on which I installed Windows 7 with Boot Camp. After I upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion, I can no longer boot Windows. If I keep the option button pressed during boot I only get the OS X and recovery options, and if I choose to boot Windows from the system preferences pane, I get a message that says that no bootable device was found. However, I'm sure that the partition is still there, because I can see it in finder and browse the files normally. How can I boot Windows again?

"Easier" in this case as an alternative is defined as repartitioning/reformatting your disk, and restoring from backups (which for most people also means starting from scratch with Boot Camp Assistant and Windows since most users aren't backing that environment up).
What you did is, in my opinion, easier and faster. But if you don't know what you're doing can lead to data loss. But then, by definition, blowing away your disk and starting over with a restored backup begins with data loss!

Lenovo T60p no longer boots

Greetings,
Well, now that I have repaired the fan problem, I am afraid I have created one.
My T60p originally had a drive with two partitions on it. A 90GB primary partition, and a 5GB secondary partition. Since I had to re-install the OS, the 5GB partition is no longer in use.
I tried to user Hirens utilities like Fdisk to see if I could use the space. I tried formating the space with an NTFS file system. That is all I did. Since then, the machine no longer boots.
However, using Hirens utilities, and instead of booting with the Hirens disk, I choose to boot from the hard drive, using NTFS. The machine booted fine so all my information is there.
How do I get it to boot without the Hirens disk now? It no longer gives me access to the programs that were on the disk....
Regards,
Jean-Pierre
P.S. I am trying to fix this myself, as with all issues on my laptop, before I take it to the Geek Squad. Thank you
for your input.
Here are the specs of the machine.
Thinkpad T60p
2007-8EU
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hello,
It sounds like the primary partition may no longer be marked as "startable" or "active" in the partition table of data located at the end of the master boot record, which is what the MBR code uses to determine which partition's boot sector to load.
If you have a Windows XP installation disc, you can try booting from that, starting the Recovery Console (instead of an operating system installation) and using the FixMBR and FixBoot commands to repair the MBR and boot sector (for good measure), respectively.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
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