Yea. So I know I probably shouldn't run a PAE kernel on my 1Gig laptop, but in trying to do so I found it won't boot. All I get on the screen is this (hand copied) Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. Int 14: CR2 c1000000 err 00000002 EIP c065d950 CS 00000060 flags 00010006 Stack: c08b3000 00038000 00001000 00000020 c068f5c0 ffffffc0 fffffc2e 00000001 >From gdb that EIP looks to be in __alloc_bootmem_core (string.h:372) .config attached. thanks -john