Upon compiling this fresh new kernel, and rebooting, I received this
lovely screen.

Thought I'd let someone "in the know", know about it!

Austin.

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LILO Boot:
Loading 2.4.6............
Uncompressing Linux... OK. booting the kernel .
Linux version 2.4.6 (austin@Server) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #1Tue Jul 17 13:34:50 CST 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000a000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 40960
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 36864 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=2.4.6 ro root=303
Initializing CPU #0
Detected 187.505MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x60
kernel BUG at softirq.c:206!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c0113c7e>]
EFLAGS: 00010082
eax: 0000001d   ebx: c02b89e0   ecx: 00000001   edx: c0258c28
esi: c02b89e0   edi: 00000001   ebp: 00000000   esp: c026defc
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0. stackpage=c026d000)
Stack: c020ebcc c020ec68 000000ce 00000009 c02a05c0 c02a05c0 c026df40
c0113a8f
       c02c05c0 00000000 c029e900 00000000 c0107e5d c025fc20 c026df9f
0000027c
       c0258800 0000027c c0106b60 c025fc20 00000000 0000027c c026df9f
0000027c
Call Trace: [<c0113a8f>] [<c0107e5d>] [<c0106b60>] [<c01106af>]
[<c0105000>]

Code: Of Ob 83 c4 0c 8b 43 08 85 c0 75 18 fb 8b 43 10 50 8b 43 0c
Kernel Panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
In interrupt handler - not synching