Hi, my 2.6.3 (and 2.6.2) kernel (sometimes) panics at boot time. It's last message is: ------------------------Begin------------------------------------------------- EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010286 EIP is at remap_area_pages+0x34/0x1f0 eax: c0101000 [...] esi: 17ff0000 [...] ds: 007b es: 007b ss:0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=c12ba000, task=c12b698c0 Stack: c152708 c0132782 7b0c3000 Call Trace: c0152708 __get_vm_area+0x24/0x100 get_vn_area+0x32/0x40 __ioremap+0xaf/0x110 shf_init+0x165/0x1a0 do_initcalls+0x2b/0xa0 init_workqueues+0xf/0x30 init+0x32/0x160 init+0x0/0x1060 kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc code: 0f 0b 51 00 40 55 34 c0 b8 00 00 ff ff 21 e0 ff 40 14 8b 54 spurious 8259A interrupt IRQ7 kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! ------------------------ END ------------------------------------------------- My .config is attached. --- At least this time ;-). Hope that it helps to improve the code. Sincerly, -- Stefan There is no delight the equal of dread. As long as it is somebody else's. --Clive Barker ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Stefan Karrmann Remscheider Straße 13, 70376 Stuttgart, Germany Tel: +49 711 5056659, Internet: www.karrmann.de, S.Karrmann@gmx.de It's currently a problem of access to gigabits through punybaud. -- J. C. R. Licklider