Does this have anything to do with the following? /var/log/messages.3: Apr 25 04:03:04 blkpoohba modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-188 Apr 25 04:03:04 blkpoohba last message repeated 15 times /var/log/messages.2: May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Linux version 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl (bhcompile@tw eety.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 W ed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc0 0 (usable) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a000 0 (reserved) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 000000000010000 0 (reserved) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff000 0 (usable) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff300 0 (ACPI NVS) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000fff3000 - 000000001000000 0 (ACPI data) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 000000010000000 0 (reserved) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: 0MB HIGHMEM available. May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: 255MB LOWMEM available. May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 65520 May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages. May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: zone(1): 61424 pages. May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: zone(2): 0 pages. May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMDVIA ) @ 0x000f6ca0 May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMDVIA AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AW RD 0x00000000) @ 0x0fff3000 May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 AMDVIA AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AW RD 0x00000000) @ 0x0fff3040 May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 AMDVIA AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MS FT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000 May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl hdd=ide-scsi hdf=ide-scsi rhgb root=L ABEL=/1 May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: ide_setup: hdf=ide-scsi May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Initializing CPU#0 May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Detected 1979.962 MHz processor. May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba syslog: klogd startup succeeded May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 3945.26 BogoMIPS May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Memory: 255332k/262080k available (1456k kerne l code, 6360k reserved, 1099k data, 136k init, 0k highmem) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba irqbalance: irqbalance startup succeeded May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6 , 262144 bytes) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: CPU: CLK_CTL MSR was 6003d223. Reprogramming t o 2003d223 May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Intel machine check architecture supported. May 2 13:26:32 blkpoohba kernel: Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0