GHi Ben, With the help of somebody else (Dean Gaudet) I got to extract the dmesg from my vm. He told me to redirect the output of the console to a file. Here is my dmesg: [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-3-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070429 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-5ubuntu3)) #1 SMP Tue May 15 05:47:48 GMT 2007 [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000ca000 - 00000000000cc000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fef0000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000fef0000 - 000000000fefc000 (ACPI data) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000fefc000 - 000000000ff00000 (ACPI NVS) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000ff00000 - 0000000010000000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available. [ 0.000000] 256MB LOWMEM available. [ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000f6ce0 [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: [ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096 [ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 65536 [ 0.000000] HighMem 65536 -> 65536 [ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 65536 [ 0.000000] DMI present. [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F6C70, 0014 (r0 PTLTD ) [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 0FEF7C02, 0030 (r1 PTLTD RSDT 6040000 LTP 0) [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 0FEFBF14, 0074 (r1 INTEL 440BX 6040000 PTL F4240) [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 0FEF7C32, 42E2 (r1 PTLTD Custom 6040000 MSFT 100000D) [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 0FEFCFC0, 0040 [ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 0FEFBF88, 0050 (r1 PTLTD APIC 6040000 LTP 0) [ 0.000000] ACPI: BOOT 0FEFBFD8, 0028 (r1 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 6040000 LTP 1) [ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) [ 0.000000] Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 17 [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) [ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) [ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 [ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge) [ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs [ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information [ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:eec00000) [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 65024 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=faba4d18-e6e2-435b-b507-2663b6696949 ro single console=ttyS0,115200 [ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. [ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. [ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0 [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes) [ 0.000000] Detected 799.414 MHz processor. [ 55.414907] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [ 55.415766] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 55.416603] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [ 55.417461] Memory: 249200k/262144k available (2036k kernel code, 12396k reserved, 927k data, 340k init, 0k highmem) [ 55.417549] virtual kernel memory layout: [ 55.417556] fixmap : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000 ( 708 kB) [ 55.417560] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) [ 55.417563] vmalloc : 0xd0800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 751 MB) [ 55.417566] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xd0000000 ( 256 MB) [ 55.417569] .init : 0xc03eb000 - 0xc0440000 ( 340 kB) [ 55.417572] .data : 0xc02fd0ab - 0xc03e5074 ( 927 kB) [ 55.417575] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02fd0ab (2036 kB) [ 55.417651] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [ 55.499632] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1620.58 BogoMIPS (lpj=3241174) [ 55.499694] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized [ 55.499757] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 55.499819] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 55.499944] CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K [ 55.500007] CPU: L2 cache: 2048K [ 55.500132] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. [ 55.500194] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [ 55.514666] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code [ 55.514729] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed [ 55.514791] ACPI: Core revision 20070126 [ 55.515104] CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5200 @ 1.60GHz stepping 08 [ 55.515229] Total of 1 processors activated (1620.58 BogoMIPS). [ 55.515292] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs [ 55.515517] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 [ 55.664864] APIC calibration not consistent with PM Timer: 101ms instead of 100ms [ 55.664920] APIC delta adjusted to PM-Timer: 412491 (420724) [ 55.683063] Brought up 1 CPUs [ 55.718850] Time: 9:35:27 Date: 04/17/107 [ 55.726329] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 55.759503] EISA bus registered [ 55.762906] ACPI: bus type pci registered [ 55.767091] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9a0, last bus=1 [ 55.767169] PCI: Using configuration type 1 [ 55.767232] Setting up standard PCI resources [ 55.867061] ACPI: Interpreter enabled [ 55.867119] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S5) [ 55.867542] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing [ 56.095310] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) [ 56.131385] PCI quirk: region 1000-103f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI [ 56.131489] PCI quirk: region 1040-104f claimed by PIIX4 SMB [ 56.194614] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 56.195205] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) [ 56.195496] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 14 15) [ 56.198420] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 14 15) [ 56.199031] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [ 56.199109] pnp: PnP ACPI init [ 56.199261] ACPI: bus type pnp registered [ 56.506332] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices [ 56.506435] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered [ 56.506541] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP [ 56.507333] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [ 56.507465] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report [ 56.619032] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [ 56.619063] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [ 56.622538] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. [ 56.664517] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 [ 56.664555] IO window: disabled. [ 56.664617] MEM window: disabled. [ 56.664680] PREFETCH window: disabled. [ 56.664805] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 56.702343] IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) [ 56.702406] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes) [ 56.702468] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [ 56.702531] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) [ 56.702593] TCP reno registered [ 56.730328] checking if image is initramfs... it is [ 57.166408] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0 [ 57.485657] Freeing initrd memory: 6241k freed [ 57.485777] Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1 [ 57.486625] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [ 57.486638] audit(1179394513.304:1): initialized [ 57.487021] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [ 57.487033] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 57.489627] io scheduler noop registered [ 57.489639] io scheduler anticipatory registered [ 57.489652] io scheduler deadline registered [ 57.489664] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [ 57.489677] Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. [ 57.490078] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [ 57.850257] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [ 57.903605] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac [ 57.903785] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 57.905388] 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [ 58.025677] 00:0a: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [ 58.028019] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize [ 58.033285] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 [ 58.034444] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 [ 58.035524] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [ 58.037435] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:MOUS] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 [ 58.552777] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 58.553637] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [ 58.554955] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 58.557045] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [ 58.557736] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 [ 58.558583] EISA: Detected 0 cards. [ 58.560786] TCP cubic registered [ 58.561349] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 58.562093] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode [ 58.562815] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1 [ 58.564856] Magic number: 7:253:576 [ 58.565493] hash matches device ptyb8 [ 58.592753] Freeing unused kernel memory: 340k freed Loading, please wait... Begin: Loading essential drivers... ... [ 58.956949] Capability LSM initialized Done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... [ 58.996464] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states) [ 58.997549] ACPI Exception (processor_core-0781): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126] [ 58.999220] ACPI Exception (processor_core-0781): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126] [ 59.001083] ACPI Exception (processor_core-0781): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126] Done. Begin: Mounting root file system... ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... Done. Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... [ 59.280205] SCSI subsystem initialized [ 59.296274] scsi0 : ata_piix [ 59.296882] scsi1 : ata_piix [ 59.297418] ata1: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00011050 irq 14 [ 59.298769] ata2: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00011058 irq 15 [ 59.308407] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 59.309337] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [ 59.310343] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 59.324251] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 [ 59.344279] Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.04 [ 59.344982] Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Logic Corporation [ 59.348394] Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.04 [ 59.364594] pcnet32.c:v1.33 27.Jun.2006