cannot boot xp sp3 with hardy

I think that your problem doesn't related to the upgrade of ubuntu. Do you have a computer with a amd processor? There is a bug within xp sp3. Here a probably helpful links: http://forums.microsoft.com/technet/showpost.aspx?postid=3227892&siteid=17&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=1
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-XP-SP3,5334.html

I have overlooked. that you you have also a problem with ubuntu. Which partitions fails to mount? Can you provide more informations, especially the whole error message?

hi
my system is an e-pc 42 with intel processor.
none of the drives is mounted not even the cd rom
message is
cannot mount volume
you are not privileged to mount the volume 'data'
and with some partition its
unable to mount volume

Can you post your "/etc/fstab" here?

hello
this is what i get
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ /etc/fstab
bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$ sudo /etc/fstab
sudo: unable to resolve host kwam-desktop
sudo: /etc/fstab: command not found
kwam@kwam-desktop:~$

/etc/fstab isn't a command, it's a file. Open a gnome terminal and enter "less /etc/fstab"

hi
the result is

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=fb8082e1-43c3-46a2-9a2f-79760d2ef954 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=2850736850733C1E /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=1408F43F54EC8AC9 /media/sda5 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=1408F4B94DD0B409 /media/sda6 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=b73caa2d-9438-4830-8daf-164776f4310f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
(END)

The fstab seems to be ok. Your ntfs partition are mounted on startup. So please provide more informations:

-How do you mount your cdrom and the other volumes?
-Can you provide your logs? -->Log in your desktop and open a terminal. Enter the command "tail -f /var/log/messages". Then try to mount a cdrom and one of your partitions. Copy the output of tail.

wam@kwam-desktop:~$ tail -f /var/log/messages
May 12 17:54:37 kwam-desktop -- MARK --
May 12 18:14:37 kwam-desktop -- MARK --
May 12 18:34:37 kwam-desktop -- MARK --
May 12 18:54:37 kwam-desktop -- MARK --
May 12 19:14:37 kwam-desktop -- MARK --
May 12 19:34:37 kwam-desktop -- MARK --
May 12 19:54:37 kwam-desktop -- MARK --
May 12 20:14:38 kwam-desktop -- MARK --
May 12 20:34:38 kwam-desktop -- MARK --
May 12 20:54:38 kwam-desktop -- MARK --

Thank you for your information. Can you provide the requested information, please?
>-How do you mount your cdrom and the other volumes?
In your log doesn't appear any mount operations. Do you have loaded (for example) a dvd or an cdrom, while you're running the command "tail"? The program "tail" needs only for a few minutes to run. You can interrupt the porgram with Ctrl+C (after you have mount a volume).

Here some helpful links:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions

hello,
i don't mount any volume when i boot ubuntu they just appear on the screen and when a usb or cd is inserted.
the links above are very educative.
but i've already mounted the drives with help from a contributor like that and the drives become unmounted when i reboot.
this never happened until after installing xp service pack 3.

At the moment I have no idea of the reason for your problem. Can you provide the file /var/log/messages, please? This could be a a lot of lines, so perhaps you use pastebin.ca and post only the link here.

Try to open a cdrom and your volumes. Then follow these instructions. Open a terminal. Enter the command "cat /var/log/messages>message.log". You will find the file in your home directory. Open the file in a texteditor, for example gedit. You can mark the hole text and copy&paste it.

May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] 511MB LOWMEM available.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000fbe40
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 131056
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] HighMem 131056 -> 131056
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 131056
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00FA690 checksum 0
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FA690, 0014 (r0 AMI )
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 1FFF0000, 0030 (r1 HP-BDD HPBDD-JB 10 MSFT 97)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 1FFF0030, 0074 (r1 HP-BDD HPBDD-JB 1 MSFT 97)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 1FFF0140, 2B7B (r1 HP-BDD HPBDD-JB 1000 MSFT 100000D)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 1FFF8000, 0040
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 1FFF00E0, 0054 (r1 HP-BDD 1 MSFT 97)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: BOOT 1FFF00B0, 0028 (r1 HP-BDD HPBDD-JB 1 MSFT 97)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: DMI detected: Hewlett-Packard
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:1 APIC version 20
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dff00000)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000ca000
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000ca000 - 00000000000ce000
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000f0000
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130033
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=fb8082e1-43c3-46a2-9a2f-79760d2ef954 ro quiet splash
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 0.000000] Detected 1695.044 MHz processor.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.009123] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.009129] console [tty0] enabled
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.009760] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.010445] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.033382] Memory: 507780k/524224k available (2176k kernel code, 15908k reserved, 1007k data, 368k init, 0k highmem)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.033396] virtual kernel memory layout:
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.033398] fixmap : 0xfff4b000 - 0xfffff000 ( 720 kB)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.033399] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.033401] vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 495 MB)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.033402] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdfff0000 ( 511 MB)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.033404] .init : 0xc0421000 - 0xc047d000 ( 368 kB)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.033406] .data : 0xc0320134 - 0xc041bdc4 (1007 kB)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.033407] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0320134 (2176 kB)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.033413] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.033480] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113500] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3394.22 BogoMIPS (lpj=6788445)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113545] Security Framework initialized
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113557] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113582] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113589] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113604] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113865] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113873] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113915] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113920] CPU: L2 cache: 256K
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113924] CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113950] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.113975] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.130157] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.132923] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.133180] Early unpacking initramfs... done
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.665525] ACPI: Core revision 20070126
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.665625] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.668353] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz stepping 02
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.668421] Total of 1 processors activated (3394.22 BogoMIPS).
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.668578] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.668785] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.813496] Brought up 1 CPUs
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.813959] net_namespace: 64 bytes
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.813976] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.814927] Time: 16:09:51 Date: 05/16/08
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.814986] NET: Registered protocol family 16
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.815429] EISA bus registered
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.815474] ACPI: bus type pci registered
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.817787] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda71, last bus=2
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.817792] PCI: Using configuration type 1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.817795] Setting up standard PCI resources
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.826098] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.826107] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.826134] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.832835] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.833185] PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.833192] PCI quirk: region 0400-043f claimed by ICH4 GPIO
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.833890] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.840561] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.840703] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.840838] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.840984] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 9) *3
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.841112] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10 11 12 14 15)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.841247] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.841381] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.841610] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10 11 12 14 15)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.841873] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.841918] ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.841961] ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.842005] ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.842132] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.842201] pnp: PnP ACPI init
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.842223] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.845397] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 9 devices
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.845430] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.845439] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.846006] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.846013] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.857480] NET: Registered protocol family 8
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.857485] NET: Registered protocol family 20
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.857666] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.861404] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.900366] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.900373] IO window: 9000-9fff
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.900381] MEM window: dfd00000-dfdfffff
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.900386] PREFETCH window: d7a00000-dfafffff
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.900393] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.900398] IO window: a000-afff
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.900406] MEM window: dfe00000-dfefffff
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.900412] PREFETCH window: dfb00000-dfbfffff
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.900466] NET: Registered protocol family 2
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.937567] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.938016] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.938204] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.938439] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.938444] TCP reno registered
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 12.949754] checking if image is initramfs...<7>Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.434766] it is
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.982735] Freeing initrd memory: 7269k freed
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.983136] Simple Boot Flag at 0x79 set to 0x1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.983952] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.983982] audit(1210954191.844:1): initialized
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.987999] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.988180] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.988500] io scheduler noop registered
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.988506] io scheduler anticipatory registered
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.988509] io scheduler deadline registered
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.988540] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.988613] PCI: Firmware left 0000:02:08.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 13.989290] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.343683] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.447745] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.447924] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.448118] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.450056] 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.451760] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.451916] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.452139] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.452144] PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.452763] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.465265] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.465546] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.465590] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.465596] cpuidle: using governor ladder
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.465599] cpuidle: using governor menu
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.465782] NET: Registered protocol family 1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.465839] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.465907] registered taskstats version 1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.466039] Magic number: 8:508:186
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.466228] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.466231] EDD information not available.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.467141] Freeing unused kernel memory: 368k freed
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 14.501151] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 15.962917] fuse init (API version 7.9)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 16.009420] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.141599] SCSI subsystem initialized
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.196508] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.196556] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.212478] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.277305] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.23-k4-NAPI
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.277312] e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.280178] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.378885] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.543167] e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xdfeff000, irq 16, MAC addr 00:04:23:1a:24:2d
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.543240] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.543265] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.543935] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.543989] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 17, io base 0x0000d000
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.544384] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.544436] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.544450] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.648526] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.648555] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.648603] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.648643] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 18, io base 0x0000d400
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.648869] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.648923] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.648935] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.773023] scsi0 : ata_piix
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.775097] scsi1 : ata_piix
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.777196] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xfc00 irq 14
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.777203] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xfc08 irq 15
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.888218] usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.942187] ata1.00: ATA-7: Maxtor 6L250R0, BAJ41G20, max UDMA/133
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.942195] ata1.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 17.958188] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.063099] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.440441] ata2.00: ATAPI: SR243T, L02G, max UDMA/33
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.612387] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.612678] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Maxtor 6L250R0 BAJ4 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.615276] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM MITSUMI CD-ROM SR243T ! L02G PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.885473] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.885656] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.885683] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.885724] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.885837] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.885858] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.885898] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.885905] sda:<4>Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.906901] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.917706] sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 <<6>input: PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input2
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.932051] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE] on usb-0000:00:1f.2-1
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.932089] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.932096] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 18.942094] sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 19.033189] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 19.049373] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 19.049415] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 19.054571] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 19.054582] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 19.697195] Attempting manual resume
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 19.745744] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 19.745777] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 29.058272] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 29.165240] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 29.253826] Linux agpgart interface v0.102
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 29.304436] agpgart: Detected an Intel 845G Chipset.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 29.313384] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 29.345473] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 29.385434] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.02 (26-Jul-2007)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 29.387417] iTCO_wdt: No card detected
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 29.502634] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input3
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 29.953315] Intel 82802 RNG detected
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 30.404466] input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/virtual/input/input4
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 30.417205] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 30.417429] input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input5
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 30.435607] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 32.734606] parport_pc 00:08: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 32.734696] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 32.796638] e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 32.819416] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 33.492408] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 58663 usecs
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 33.492415] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 33.592714] NET: Registered protocol family 10
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 33.593170] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 37.453968] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 37.583040] Adding 1951888k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1951888k
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 38.207418] EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 40.328097] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 41.028900] No dock devices found.
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 43.043107] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 43.160494] audit(1210954221.903:2): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="a::" denied_mask="a::" name="/dev/tty" pid=4671 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 43.228490] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
May 16 16:10:21 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 43.228502] apm: overridden by ACPI.
May 16 16:10:23 kwam-desktop dhcdbd: Started up.
May 16 16:10:24 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 45.787413] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
May 16 16:10:24 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 45.788932] NET: Registered protocol family 31
May 16 16:10:24 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 45.788942] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
May 16 16:10:24 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 45.788951] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
May 16 16:10:24 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 45.840389] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9
May 16 16:10:24 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 45.840399] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
May 16 16:10:24 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 45.940474] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
May 16 16:10:24 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 45.941013] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
May 16 16:10:24 kwam-desktop kernel: [ 45.941025] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8

the problem was solved with system restore in xp to the time before sp3 was installed.
all partitions are now automatically mounted when systm boots