Hi, I'm getting the oops below when trying to use qemu with a kernel built with just the noop iosched, I'm never had looked at this code before, so I did a quick hack that seems enough for my case. Ah, this is with a fairly recent git tree (today), haven't checked if it is present in 2.6.14. Best Regards, - Arnaldo Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c5f20f60 printing eip: c01b0ecd *pde = 00017067 *pte = 05f20000 Oops: 0000 [#1] DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00000046 (2.6.14acme) EIP is at elv_rq_merge_ok+0x15/0x7b eax: 00000014 ebx: c5f20f58 ecx: 000003f8 edx: 00000046 esi: c12a5a90 edi: c5f20f58 ebp: c11658d0 esp: c11658c4 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=c1165000 task=c1164af0) Stack: c0251883 c5ecfe4c c5d688c0 c1165904 c01b0f48 c5f20f58 c12a5a90 00000000 c5874000 c018c5e1 c5f15f24 0000002b 00000000 c5ecfe4c c5d688c0 c12a5a90 c1165920 c01b128d c5f20f58 c12a5a90 000a568a 00000000 00000002 c1165960 Call Trace: [] show_stack+0x78/0x83 [] show_registers+0x100/0x167 [] die+0xcb/0x140 [] do_page_fault+0x393/0x53a [] error_code+0x4f/0x54 [] elv_try_merge+0x15/0x84 [] elv_merge+0x1d/0x4f [] __make_request+0xb2/0x425 [] generic_make_request+0x125/0x137 [] submit_bio+0xa3/0xa9 [] submit_bh+0xeb/0x10c [] __bread_slow+0x4a/0x86 [] __bread+0x25/0x2c [] ext3_get_branch+0x6c/0xe9 [] ext3_get_block_handle+0x99/0x28e [] ext3_get_block+0x5f/0x66 [] do_mpage_readpage+0x110/0x3ab [] mpage_readpages+0x85/0x114 [] ext3_readpages+0x16/0x18 [] read_pages+0x22/0xf5 [] __do_page_cache_readahead+0xf5/0x113 [] blockable_page_cache_readahead+0x43/0x9a [] page_cache_readahead+0x72/0x101 [] do_generic_mapping_read+0xfc/0x451 [] __generic_file_aio_read+0x15a/0x1a8 [] generic_file_aio_read+0x42/0x49 [] do_sync_read+0x9c/0xcd [] vfs_read+0x8a/0x12a [] kernel_read+0x37/0x41 [] prepare_binprm+0xbc/0xce [] do_execve+0xe9/0x1d9 [] sys_execve+0x2a/0x75 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: b9 21 08 00 59 eb 98 66 4a 75 e9 51 e8 55 c3 fd ff 59 eb e0 90 90 55 89 e5 56 8b 75 0c 53 8b 5d 08 68 83 18 25 c0 e8 bf db f5 ff <8b> 43 08 5a a8 d8 75 55 a8 20 74 51 68 b1 18 25 c0 e8 a9 db f5 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!