Very strange indeed.

A bit of background. I recently became the proud owner of a pIII 1ghz machine. Provided my actual desktop pc at home is a piii 500mhz, this was a huge improvement (and i got it for free, so it couldn't be better).

After some trouble I managed to install sarge and update it into testing. I think there is something wrong with the mobo because I can only get the hardisks detected in cable select mode and they get both detected as slave. Funny enough only debian gets installed in the pc. I tried centos, fedora, ubuntu. They all crash during the formatting of the hd's. Anyway, sarge installed fine, got a raid 1 in no time running. Updated to testing with a kernel 2.6.8.2.386. Runs fine.

Anyway, I have now a machine at home with which I could try running some virtual machines, just for learning and for fun. Can I do it with this kernel or must I get a newer one? I can live without udev (although I miss it).

And for the connaisseurs: what do you make out of this kernel log?

Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 46ae0bb5
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: printing eip:
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: b0149eb7
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: *pde = 00000000
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl sunrpc r128 drm ipv6 ppdev lp autofs4 dm_mod ide_cd cdrom i2c_viapro mousedev tsdev shpchp pci_hotplug evdev i2c_core rtc floppy via_agp agpgart pcspkr psmouse serio_raw parport_pc parport pl2303 usbserial ext3 jbd mbcache raid1 md_mod ide_generic ide_disk uhci_hcd via82cxxx generic ide_core usbcore 3c59x mii processor
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: CPU: 0
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: EIP: 0060:[<b0149eb7>] Not tainted VLI
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00210293 (2.6.16-2-686 #1)
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: EIP is at __block_write_full_page+0xbb/0x292
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: eax: f2a1712b ebx: 46ae0bb5 ecx: 00000000 edx: c7f317f0
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: esi: 00fc8049 edi: 00000000 ebp: b1264ca0 esp: c7e15df0
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: Process pdflush (pid: 61, threadinfo=c7e14000 task=c7f57a70)
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: Stack: &lt;0&gt;b014cdeb c7b870a4 00000000 0128266f 00000000 c7f317f0 b1264ca0 c7e15f5c
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: c7b87140 00000002 b014c1c4 c7e15f5c b014cdeb c7e15f5c b0162629 b1264ca0
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: c7e15f5c 0000000e c7c05510 00000000 00000000 b014c1b2 ffffffff 00000000
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b014cdeb>] blkdev_get_block+0x0/0x4b
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b014c1c4>] blkdev_writepage+0x12/0x16
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b014cdeb>] blkdev_get_block+0x0/0x4b
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b0162629>] mpage_writepages+0x192/0x2e6
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b014c1b2>] blkdev_writepage+0x0/0x16
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b014c12b>] generic_writepages+0xf/0x13
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b0134613>] do_writepages+0x23/0x39
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b01610e8>] __writeback_single_inode+0x147/0x2b9
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b025ed93>] schedule_timeout+0x7e/0x95
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b0161653>] sync_sb_inodes+0x175/0x212
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b0134ad2>] pdflush+0x0/0x16a
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b0161867>] writeback_inodes+0x48/0x72
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b013447c>] wb_kupdate+0x98/0xfb
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b025e9ab>] schedule+0x454/0x4c1
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b0134ba4>] pdflush+0xd2/0x16a
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b01343e4>] wb_kupdate+0x0/0xfb
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b0123f21>] kthread+0x94/0xc1
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b0123e8d>] kthread+0x0/0xc1
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: [<b0101005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
Aug 26 13:02:08 localhost kernel: Code: 75 08 0f 0b e8 06 77 3d 27 b0 8b 55 0c 89 54 24 14 89 d3 3b 7c 24 10 72 12 77 06 3b 74 24 0c 76 0a 0f ba 33 01 0f ba
2b 00 eb 43 &lt;8b&gt; 03 a8 20 75 3d 8b 03 a8 02 74 37 6a 01 53 57 56 ff 74 24 14
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: &lt;1&gt;Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e9af6bbd
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: printing eip:
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: b0148534
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: *pde = 00000000
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 [#2]
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl sunrpc r128 drm ipv6 ppdev lp autofs4 dm_mod ide_cd cdrom i2c_viapro mousedev tsdev shpchp pci_hotplug evdev i2c_core rtc floppy via_agp agpgart pcspkr psmouse serio_raw parport_pc parport pl2303 usbserial ext3 jbd mbcache raid1 md_mod ide_generic ide_disk uhci_hcd via82cxxx generic ide_core usbcore 3c59x mii processor
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: CPU: 0
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: EIP: 0060:[<b0148534>] Not tainted VLI
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.16-2-686 #1)
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: EIP is at __find_get_block_slow+0x6c/0xed
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: e9af6ba5 ecx: 00000000 edx: b6110ce2
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: esi: 00fcc2a1 edi: 00000000 ebp: b12645a0 esp: c7e15c58
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: Process gnome-panel (pid: 4184, threadinfo=c7e14000 task=c7f57a70)
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: Stack: &lt;0&gt;c7b870a4 c7f319c4 c5089fa8 00fa1007 00000000 00000008 b0149ac1 00000001
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: c6ed2d08 c6da33a0 00000008 b019b1c4 c780fcd4 00000008 c7c05b8c 00000001
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: 00001000 c3227c28 00000000 b0149aef c7b87040 00fcc2a1 00000000 00001000
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b0149ac1>] __find_get_block+0x129/0x13d
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b019b1c4>] as_add_request+0xbf/0xee
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b0149aef>] __getblk+0x1a/0x1b8
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<c88eb1c0>] ext3_getblk+0xb7/0x1ed [ext3]
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b019594d>] generic_make_request+0x163/0x175
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b014b1ba>] __bio_clone+0x77/0x9a
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<c88ee3c3>] ext3_find_entry+0x2eb/0x4f1 [ext3]
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b0112d1b>] __wake_up_common+0x29/0x49
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<c88eed4b>] ext3_lookup+0x1f/0x79 [ext3]
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b015199b>] do_lookup+0xa6/0x13f
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b0151cb3>] __link_path_walk+0x27f/0xa8a
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b0205715>] do_sock_read+0x9d/0xa6
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b0152507>] link_path_walk+0x49/0xbb
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b0152933>] do_path_lookup+0x17f/0x19a
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b0152e3f>] __user_walk_fd+0x2a/0x42
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b014d876>] vfs_stat_fd+0x1a/0x45
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b014d8b0>] vfs_stat+0xf/0x13
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b014dfe9>] sys_stat64+0x10/0x27
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: [<b0102915>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Aug 26 13:02:10 localhost kernel: Code: 9f 00 00 00 8b 00 f6 c4 08 0f 84 8b 00 00 00 8b 45 00 f6 c4 08 75 08 0f 0b 9d 01 77 3d 27 b0 8b 5d 0c b9 01 00 00 00
89 5c 24 04 &lt;8b&gt; 53 18 8b 43 14 39 fa 75 04 39 f0 74 5c 8b 03 8b 5b 04 a8 20