"Mike Galbraith" <EFAULT@gmx.de> writes:

> (sorry, I have to use this pos at work)
> 
> Yes.  .31 exploded on me after boot, but did not do the violent reboot
> during boot.

Earlier you had said it was .38 or so where the failures kicked in,
so I figured it was some other problem.
 
> > If it is really the gdt I have some old patches that roughly do the
> > right thing, and I just need to dust them off.
> 
> You dust them off, and I'll be more than happy to test them.  I keep
> entirely too many kernels resident to want to use lilo.

Here you are.
The following patch cleans up and removes unnecessary dependencies from
the x86 boot path.
 
> (kexec/bootimg wonderfulness solves my problem too.  boot into a stable
> kernel, instant reboot into any one I want.  gimme gimme gimme:)

It is getting there...
I just need to find a formula that makes the linux kernel boot reliably.