I gritted my teeth and went ahead and tried building a new kernel 2.4.12 for my SS4. The build was error-free and pretty much painless, except I get this at boot now:
PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1 bootmem_init: Scan sp_banks, init_bootmem (spfn[21f], bpfn[21f], mlpfn[1fad1]) free_bootmem: base[0] size[1fad000] reserve_bootmem: base[0] size[21f000] reserve_bootmem: base[21f000] size[3f8] Booting Linux... mem_init: Calling free_all_bootmem(). and then it just hangs there, no other messages or errors, I have to Stop+a to get out. I also went back through and made practically everything as a module and made the kernel as light as possible, to no avail. I do have some patches applied to the kernel source, but these are netfilter/ipsec(frees/wan) ONLY. AFAIK, none of them should have touched bootmem.c or any other core component. My very limited kernel hacking skills are exhausted and I am at a loss. Any help would be appreciated. misc. other info: the working kernel: 2.2.19 non-working kernel: 2.4.12 distro: Debian testing (woody) gcc ver: 2.95.4 libc6 ver: 2.2.4-3 I'll attach the .config is someone wants to see, but I'll save the space until then. Mike Culbertson unixadmin, etc