I have a Sony Vaio PCG-GRX770 too, and can't boot up with 2.6.0. Noticed that there was a thread on this problem here, but figured you would want as much info as possible, so here are what I collected.  output of sh scripts/linux_ver (while running 2.4.23 with ck patches): Gnu C                  3.3.2 Gnu make               3.80 util-linux             2.12 mount                  2.12 module-init-tools      0.9.15-pre3 e2fsprogs              1.35-WIP pcmcia-cs              3.1.33 nfs-utils              1.0.6 Linux C Library        2.3.2 Dynamic linker (ldd)   2.3.2 Procps                 3.1.14 Net-tools              1.60 Console-tools          0.2.3 Sh-utils               5.0 ########## Output of screen when the boot process stops (typed by hand, so might contain typos): PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 APCI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 28) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 9) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnPBIOS Support... PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f74a0 PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xacb3, dseg 0x400 pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x1000-0x105f has been reserved pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x1060-0x107f has been reserved pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x1180-0x11bf has been reserved general protection fault: e998 [#1] CPU: 0 EIP: 0098:[<00008a8b>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 0010046 EIP is at 0x8a8b eax: 00000001   ebx: 00000228    ecx: 001a0000   edx: 0000000a esi: 0000c046    edi: 00000000     ebp: c151fe68    esp: c151fe18 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfoc151e000 taskdfeef900) stack: c08b8af5  8af5000a  c0653032  c0290003  0a110011  0027bfec  bfb98aea  0000bfc5             bfb08ae9  0000bf9e  00030000  fe680000  fe5ec151  8ad1c151  00000000  00270000             0001001a  c5940000  dfe859e8   00000000  c015f83b  00000000  fed0fed0  ffffc151 Call Trace:   []  __d_lookup+0xbd/0x145 [] d_alloc+0x169/0x1c5 [] d_instantiate+0x69/0x6b [] dio_bio_submit+0x9/0x63 [] __pnp_bios_get_dev_node+0x12d/0x1ad [] pnp_bios_get_dev_node+0x24/0x49 [] build_devlist+0x60/0x125 [] pnpbios_init+0x9c/0xae [] do_initcalls+0x27/0x92 [] init_workqueues+0xf/0x26 [] init+0x35/0x13c [] init+0x0/0x13c [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb code: Bade EIP value <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! spurios 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. ######################### -- John L. Fjellstad____________________________________________________ web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes