i have the terminal information.
to recap:
these are the commands suggested to me, to run just before i entered the command "cp -p /mnt/hdc/boot/* /mnt/hda1/boot/" that locks up my computer.
i hope this great deal of info doesn't get the mods upset at me.
thanks everybody.
tc@box:~$ sudo mount | grep mnt
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered)
/dev/hdc on /mnt/hdc type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 type vfat (rw,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,code page=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1)
tc@box:~$ sudo grep mnt /etc/fstab
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 # Added by TC
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec,relatime 0 0 # Added by TC
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ext3 noauto,users,exec,relatime 0 0 # Added by TC
/dev/hdc /mnt/hdc auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 # Added by TC
/dev/hdd /mnt/hdd auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 # Added by TC
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0 # Added by TC
tc@box:~$ sudo df -a
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 462428 24624 437804 5% /
proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 0% /sys
devpts 0 0 0 0% /dev/pts
tmpfs 256904 0 256904 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 101086 5665 90202 6% /mnt/hda1
/dev/hdc 10368 10368 0 100% /mnt/hdc
/dev/sda1 7837760 854688 6983072 11% /mnt/sda1
/dev/loop0 140 140 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/Xlibs_suppor t
/dev/loop1 680 680 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libxml2
/dev/loop2 1016 1016 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/glib2
/dev/loop3 416 416 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/pango
/dev/loop4 772 772 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/graphics-lib s-1
/dev/loop5 76 76 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/expat2
/dev/loop6 132 132 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/fontconfig
/dev/loop7 196 196 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/pixman
/dev/loop8 268 268 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/cairo
/dev/loop9 52 52 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/atk
/dev/loop10 3108 3108 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/gtk2
/dev/loop11 360 360 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/ttf-bitstrea m-vera
/dev/loop12 56 56 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/leafpad
/dev/loop13 84 84 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/beaver2
tc@box:~$ sudo dmesg
Linux version 2.6.29.1-tinycore (root@box) (gcc version 4.2.2) #1337 SMP Fri Apr 10 19:12:39 EEST 2009
KERNEL supported cpus:
Intel GenuineIntel
AMD AuthenticAMD
NSC Geode by NSC
Cyrix CyrixInstead
Centaur CentaurHauls
Transmeta GenuineTMx86
Transmeta TransmetaCPU
UMC UMC UMC UMC
PAT WC disabled due to known CPU erratum.
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000c8000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fcf0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fcf0000 - 000000001fcfc000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fcfc000 - 000000001fd00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fd00000 - 000000001fe80000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fe80000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
DMI 2.3 present.
last_pfn = 0x1fe80 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
kernel direct mapping tables up to 1fe80000 @ 7000-c000
RAMDISK: 1f4f9000 - 1fccebab
ACPI: RSDP 000F6670, 0014 (r0 PTLTD )
ACPI: RSDT 1FCF7082, 0030 (r1 PTLTD RSDT 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: FACP 1FCFBF0A, 0074 (r1 INTEL Whitney 6040000 PTL F4240)
FADT: X_PM1a_EVT_BLK.bit_width (16) does not match PM1_EVT_LEN (4)
ACPI: DSDT 1FCF70B2, 4E58 (r1 INTEL Whitney 6040000 MSFT 100000D)
ACPI: FACS 1FCFCFC0, 0040
ACPI: APIC 1FCFBF7E, 005A (r1 PTLTD APIC 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: BOOT 1FCFBFD8, 0028 (r1 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 6040000 LTP 1)
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
0MB HIGHMEM available.
510MB LOWMEM available.
mapped low ram: 0 - 1fe80000
low ram: 00000000 - 1fe80000
bootmap 00002000 - 00005fd0
(9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 001fe80000]
#0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
#1 [0000001000 - 0000002000] EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
#2 [0000006000 - 0000007000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
#3 [0000100000 - 0000528674] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 0000528674]
#4 [001f4f9000 - 001fccebab] RAMDISK ==> [001f4f9000 - 001fccebab]
#5 [0000529000 - 000052c000] INIT_PG_TABLE ==> [0000529000 - 000052c000]
#6 [000009f800 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009f800 - 0000100000]
#7 [0000007000 - 0000008000] PGTABLE ==> [0000007000 - 0000008000]
#8 [0000002000 - 0000006000] BOOTMAP ==> [0000002000 - 0000006000]
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x0001fe80
HighMem 0x0001fe80 -> 0x0001fe80
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000000 -> 0x0000009f
0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0001fcf0
0: 0x0001fd00 -> 0x0001fe80
On node 0 totalpages: 130575
free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0450d80, node_mem_map c1000000
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 3967 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 989 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 125587 pages, LIFO batch:31
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
nr_irqs_gsi: 24
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000c8000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000c8000 - 00000000000d0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000d0000 - 00000000000e0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000001fcf0000 - 000000001fcfc000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000001fcfc000 - 000000001fd00000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dfb80000)
NR_CPUS:8 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:1 nr_node_ids:1
PERCPU: Allocating 32768 bytes of per cpu data
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 129554
Kernel command line: initrd=/boot/tinycore.gz quiet max_loop=256 BOOT_IMAGE=/boo t/bzImage
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Fast TSC calibration using PIT
Detected 1295.750 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 505000k/522752k available (2433k kernel code, 16868k reserved, 1088k dat a, 344k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff50000 - 0xfffff000 ( 700 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xe0680000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 497 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdfe80000 ( 510 MB)
.init : 0xc0477000 - 0xc04cd000 ( 344 kB)
.data : 0xc0360468 - 0xc04707b0 (1088 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0360468 (2433 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 2592. 47 BogoMIPS (lpj=4319166)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 9k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20081204
..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
CPU0: Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1300MHz stepping 01
Brought up 1 CPUs
Total of 1 processors activated (2592.47 BogoMIPS).
net_namespace: 944 bytes
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9a8, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: No dock devices found.
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
pci 0000:00:01.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xf8000000-0xfbffffff]
pci 0000:00:01.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xf4000000-0xf407ffff]
pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 1180-11bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 20 io port: [0x1080-0x108f]
pci 0000:00:1f.2: reg 20 io port: [0x10a0-0x10bf]
pci 0000:00:1f.3: reg 20 io port: [0x1100-0x110f]
pci 0000:00:1f.5: reg 10 io port: [0x1200-0x12ff]
pci 0000:00:1f.5: reg 14 io port: [0x1300-0x133f]
pci 0000:01:06.0: reg 10 io port: [0x2000-0x20ff]
pci 0000:01:06.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xf4100000-0xf41000ff]
pci 0000:01:06.0: supports D1 D2
pci 0000:01:06.0: PME# supported from D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:01:06.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:01:0b.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xf4100400-0xf41004ff]
pci 0000:01:0b.0: reg 14 io port: [0x2800-0x2807]
pci 0000:01:0b.0: reg 18 io port: [0x2400-0x24ff]
pci 0000:01:0b.0: supports D2
pci 0000:01:0b.0: PME# supported from D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:01:0b.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:1e.0: transparent bridge
pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge io port: [0x2000-0x2fff]
pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xf4100000-0xf41fffff]
pci_bus 0000:00: on NUMA node 0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: Power Resource [FN01] (on)
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 3.00 loaded.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
system 00:01: ioport range 0x1000-0x107f has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0x1180-0x11bf has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0x600-0x67f has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0xfe00-0xfe0f has been reserved
system 00:01: iomem range 0xff800000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
system 00:01: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff has been reserved
system 00:01: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff has been reserved
system 00:02: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
system 00:02: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
system 00:02: iomem range 0x100000-0x1fffffff could not be reserved
pci 0000:00:1e.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:01
pci 0000:00:1e.0: IO window: 0x2000-0x2fff
pci 0000:00:1e.0: MEM window: 0xf4100000-0xf41fffff
pci 0000:00:1e.0: PREFETCH window: disabled
pci 0000:00:1e.0: setting latency timer to 64
pci_bus 0000:00: resource 0 io: [0x00-0xffff]
pci_bus 0000:00: resource 1 mem: [0x000000-0xffffffff]
pci_bus 0000:01: resource 0 io: [0x2000-0x2fff]
pci_bus 0000:01: resource 1 mem: [0xf4100000-0xf41fffff]
pci_bus 0000:01: resource 2 mem: [0x0-0x0]
pci_bus 0000:01: resource 3 io: [0x00-0xffff]
pci_bus 0000:01: resource 4 mem: [0x000000-0xffffffff]
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
Freeing initrd memory: 8022k freed
Simple Boot Flag at 0x35 set to 0x1
fuse init (API version 7.11)
msgmni has been set to 1002
alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
pci 0000:00:01.0: Boot video device
input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input0
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/inpu t1
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
fan PNP0C0B:00: registered as cooling_device0
ACPI: Fan [FAN1] (on)
ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [5]
processor ACPI_CPU:00: registered as cooling_device1
ACPI Exception (thermal-0377): AE_OK, No or invalid critical threshold [20081204 ]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12b
Non-volatile memory driver v1.3
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:0a: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
brd: module loaded
loop: loaded (max 256 devices)
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
NET: Registered protocol family 24
tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
piix 0000:00:1f.1: IDE controller (0x8086:0x2411 rev 0x02)
PIIX_IDE 0000:00:1f.1: power state changed by ACPI to D0
piix 0000:00:1f.1: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1080-0x1087
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1088-0x108f
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 15, ATA DISK drive
hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
hda: UDMA/66 mode selected
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: ATAPI iHAP422 9, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: MEMOREX CD-RW4224, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
hdc: UDMA/66 mode selected
hdd: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
hdd: MWDMA2 mode selected
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide_generic: please use "probe_mask=0x3f" module parameter for probing all legac y ISA IDE ports
ide-gd driver 1.18
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 29336832 sectors (15020 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=29104/16/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-cd driver 5.00
ide-cd: hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R/RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-cd: hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1860kB Cache
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: PCI INT D -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: setting latency timer to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 19, io base 0x000010a0
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
padlock: VIA PadLock not detected.
padlock: VIA PadLock Hash Engine not detected.
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 344k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/inpu t2
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input3
intel_rng: FWH not detected