Some random things I noticed, not all of them critical or related to your issue at hand:
PCI: 00:18.0 init PCI: 00:01.0 init set power on after power fail RTC Init Invalid CMOS LB checksum
I wonder why, but probably not critical.
PNP: 002e.1 init PNP: 002e.4 init FAN_CTL: reg = 0x02a9, read value = 0x50 FAN_CTL: reg = 0x02a9, writing value = 0xd7 PNP: 002e.5 init Keyboard selftest failed
Strange, but seems to work nonetheless (as per discussion on IRC; it's a USB keyboard attached via an USB-to-PS/2 adapter, btw).
PCI: 00:06.1 init base = fc040000 codec_mask = 01 codec viddid: 10ec0888 No verb!
Critical? What does this mean anyway?
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.20-15-generic (root@yellow) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 06:17:24 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.20-15.27-generic) [ 0.000000] Command line: acpi=off pci=noacpi,nobios console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 root=UUID=3bd44ac7-3a5b-4d3a-b452-fbbc051c9f8d ro
^^^^^^
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000c0000 - 00000000000f0000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000080000000 (usable) [ 0.000000] PCI: Unknown option `nobios'
nobios unknown
[ 0.000000] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. [ 0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override
The wiki suggests 'acpi_use_timer_override', too.
http://linuxbios.org/GIGABYTE_GA-M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial
[ 20.774883] PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. [ 20.781319] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 20.786293] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
OK, so Linux does indeed find the keyboard, it seems.
[ 20.802838] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
LB related?
- Starting powernowd... [80G /etc/rc2.d/S20powernowd: 156: cannot create /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0//cpufreq/scaling_governor: Directory nonexistent
- CPU frequency scaling not supported
I think this is because of missing ACPI?
Uwe.