Hi Alan, I have a fully reproducible oops on boot with 2.2.21pre2 and 2.2.21pre3. Kernels 2.2.19, 2.2.21pre1 and 2.4.18rc2 works great. oops ---- CPU serial number disabled. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 756e654f current->tss.cr3 = 00101000,%cr3 = 00101000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 CPU: 1 EIP: 0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: 00000002 ebx: 756e6547 ecx: 6c65746e edx: 49656e69 : : just tel me if I must hand copy the rest of the screen :( ciao, luca my 0.2 euro on: [Backport a lot of x86 setup] ;)