Problem after BIOS update...weird [PARTIALY SOLVED]

[Israfel_21]

I have WinXP and Kubuntu working together in my computer. One day I decided to update the BIOS of my motherboard (Asus K8V-SE Deluxe) using the update tool and recent-stable BIOS file from the manufacturer, all done in WinXP. Everything seemed to be alright...reboot my PC, saw the GRUB menu, could enter WinXP, Kubuntu loading...
But, when I want my lovely Kubuntu Linux back just before the choose user menu the system doesn't respond anymore showing nonsense if I try to access in console mode.

Somebody help!!



Starting in recovery mode I was able to access as root and start kdm. Almost everything seemed normal, except that knetworkkmanager couldn't start.

These are the last lines of my kernel log and these lines appeared when things screwed up...

Mar 23 22:51:35 Israfel21 kernel: [  39.322530] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ processors (version 2.00.00)
Mar 23 22:51:35 Israfel21 kernel: [  39.325924] powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects
Mar 23 22:51:35 Israfel21 kernel: [  40.325357] skge eth0: enabling interface
Mar 23 22:51:37 Israfel21 kernel: [  41.607856] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
Mar 23 22:51:37 Israfel21 kernel: [  42.087258] audit(1206337897.108:3): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="a" denied_mask="a" name="/dev/tty" pid=5108 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
Mar 23 22:51:37 Israfel21 kernel: [  42.156402] skge eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control none
Mar 23 22:51:39 Israfel21 kernel: [  44.573446] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
Mar 23 22:51:39 Israfel21 kernel: [  44.573451] apm: overridden by ACPI.
Mar 23 22:51:40 Israfel21 kernel: [  45.244593] NET: Registered protocol family 10
Mar 23 22:51:40 Israfel21 kernel: [  45.245278] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mar 23 22:51:43 Israfel21 kernel: [  47.634459] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6f6c6d66
Mar 23 22:51:43 Israfel21 kernel: [  47.634465] printing eip:
Mar 23 22:51:43 Israfel21 kernel: [  47.634466] c017e34c
Mar 23 22:51:43 Israfel21 kernel: [  47.634467] *pde = 00000000
Mar 23 22:51:43 Israfel21 kernel: [  47.634470] Oops: 0000 [#1]

What can I do?

A few weeks ago, after a rage/frustration attack :-X, I installed Kubuntu 7.10 x86 once again in my PC and it was working great as ever, but after i installed and configured NUT (Network UPS Tools) successfully the same error appeared at the next boot (=~!"#$&"#~!!!).
To partially solve the problem i did this...

- Enter Kubutnu through Recovery mode
- Gave root password for maintenance
- Stop kde desktop manager

root@Israfel21#kdm stop

The funny thing is that this code actually STARTS the kde desktop manager as root
- In the choose user menu, I changed to terminal mode with alt+F1 (using the console mode option in the menu doesn't work)
- Login as myself :P
- Stop and start kdm

me@Israfel21#sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop
me@Israfel21#sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start

This way I can enter and everything is working normally, but I have to do this every time i want access Kubuntu.

Any ideas?

[n3ck]

Re: Problem after BIOS update...weird

Maybe it was about using SATA native controls.
Try to disable it in your bios, some OS have conflicts with this.

[Israfel_21]

Re: Problem after BIOS update...weird

I checked out the BIOS and the option was already deactivated. I even uninstalled the inetd-utils (last package installed before the mess) to see what happen.
Still no joy