Trimmed limux-kernel and Linus from the Cc list ... this looks like an ia64 only issue at the moment.
> Hangs hard after > > ELILO boot: Uncompressing Linux...done > Loading file > \EFI\debian\boot\initrd-autobench.img...done Ouch. That isn't far at all. Are you using a serial console with a console=uart,io,0xxxx or console=uart,mmio,0xxxx to get the console up and running at the earliest point in the boot process? [It looks like the answer is "no" from the console log you attached]. If not, please try this (you can figure out the magic arguments by running "dmesg | grep tty" after a normal boot, and looking at Documentation/ia64/serial.txt). Looks like "uart,io,0x3f8" will be the right magic for you. There are a couple of small extra patches from Kaneshige-san that aren't in Linus' tree yet. I just pushed them up to kernel.org so they should show up in my git tree there in the next few minutes. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git release So you might want to try with those patches included in case this has already been fixed. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html