Hi,

System doesnt boot 2.6.27, boots 2.6.24.

noquiet/nosplash attached (sorry, camshot :-)

NB that the the time isnt real, even though it points out 5 minutes waiting time the 299.* all the booting up to that point was done in < 1sec (the clocksource message hints to that, too).

Logmessages from around that point in 2.6.24 are:
[   22.921231] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:04.0
[   22.921288]   IO window: e000-efff
[   22.921346]   MEM window: fde00000-fdefffff
[   22.921404]   PREFETCH window: fdf00000-fdffffff
[   22.921464] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
[   22.921522]   IO window: c000-cfff
[   22.921589]   MEM window: fdd00000-fddfffff
[   22.921649]   PREFETCH window: fdc00000-fdcfffff
[   22.921721] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[   22.921726] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
[   22.921740] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[   22.961551] IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[   22.962290] TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
[   22.964614] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[   22.965218] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
[   22.965282] TCP reno registered
[   22.973559] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[   23.451400] Freeing initrd memory: 7539k freed

cpuinfo (actually two CPUs shown, but probably redundant):
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 15
model		: 107
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1000.000
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 2
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch
bogomips	: 2064.44
TLB size	: 1024 4K pages
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps

rough lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Graphics Port 0)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 7914
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8800 GS (rev a2)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)

The Board is a sapphire board with PCIe.


HTH,
 please redirect any further questions to my eMail account as i seldomly read here. 


Thanks,
 -mc