Well, I've compiled my own kernel several times, the last time being the most successful and speeding up boot time the best. Alas, it also resulted in the most boot-time error messages! 2.6.14 kernel fixed some problems I was having with 2.6.13.4, but I tried to do it this time without initrd (it did not listen to me though, and used initrd anyway!).
I'll just copy my 'dmesg' list here and see if you have any comments:
Linux version 2.6.14 (root@CPX) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 31 14:59:11 EST 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffdb000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffdb000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000100a0000 - 0000000010100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
255MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65499
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 61403 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000f4040
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d2051c ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x0fff0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d2051c ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x0fff0400
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10100000:efd00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01201000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
Detected 498.571 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 253108k/261996k available (2040k kernel code, 8280k reserved, 651k data, 176k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 997.91 BogoMIPS (lpj=1995830)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0820)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 2692k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc0ae, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI quirk: region 0800-083f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
PCI quirk: region 0840-085f claimed by PIIX4 SMB
PIIX4 devres B PIO at 00e0-00e7
PIIX4 devres C PIO at 0850-085f
PIIX4 devres G PIO at 0280-0287
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [PADA] (on)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x800-0x805 could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x808-0x80f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x806-0x807 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x850-0x853 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x856-0x85f has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x810-0x83f has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x840-0x84f has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x600-0x67f has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0xf000-0xf0fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0xf100-0xf1fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0xf200-0xf2fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0xf400-0xf4fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0xf500-0xf5fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0xf600-0xf6fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0xf800-0xf8fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0xf900-0xf9fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: e000-efff
MEM window: fc000000-feffffff
PREFETCH window: 28000000-280fffff
PCI: Bus 2, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:03.0
IO window: 00001000-000010ff
IO window: 00001400-000014ff
PREFETCH window: 20000000-21ffffff
MEM window: 22000000-23ffffff
PCI: Bus 6, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:03.1
IO window: 00001800-000018ff
IO window: 00001c00-00001cff
PREFETCH window: 24000000-25ffffff
MEM window: 26000000-27ffffff
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.0 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.1 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IBM-DARA-206000, ATA DISK drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1802B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 11733120 sectors (6007 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=12416/15/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.0 [1028:00aa]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:03.0, mfunc 0x01261222, devctl 0x66
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000010
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.1 [1028:00aa]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:03.1, mfunc 0x01261222, devctl 0x66
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000010
NET: Registered protocol family 2
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
LID PBTN PCI0 UAR1 MPCI
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 2692KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
unix: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
pdc202xx_new: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
aec62xx: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
alim15x3: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
amd74xx: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
atiixp: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
cmd64x: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
cs5520: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
cs5530: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
cy82c693: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
generic: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
hpt34x: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
hpt366: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ns87415: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
opti621: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
pdc202xx_old: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
piix: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
rz1000: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
sc1200: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
serverworks: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
siimage: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
sis5513: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
slc90e66: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
triflex: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
trm290: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
via82cxxx: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_generic: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_core: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
ide_disk: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Adding 273064k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:273064k
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
input: DualPoint Stick on isa0060/serio1
input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
ds: ds_open(socket 0)
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/k ... cmcia.html for details.
ds: ds_open(socket 1)
ds: ds_open(socket 2)
cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: unable to map card memory!
ds: ds_release(socket 0)
ds: ds_release(socket 1)
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PIIX4: port 0x01f0 already claimed by ide0
PIIX4: port 0x0170 already claimed by ide1
PIIX4: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
maestro: Configuring ESS Maestro 2E found at IO 0xD800 IRQ 5
maestro: subvendor id: 0x00aa1028
maestro: PCI power management capability: 0x7622
maestro: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x83847609 caps: 0x6940 pwr: 0xf
maestro: 1 channels configured.
maestro: version 0.15 time 15:46:22 Oct 31 2005
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000dce0
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf4000000
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
input: PC Speaker
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 1 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
Capability LSM initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0367360(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (25 C)
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
ds: ds_open(socket 0)
ds: ds_open(socket 1)
ds: ds_open(socket 2)
ds: ds_open(socket 2)
eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 11, hw_addr 00:09:5B:04:F1:15
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
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