Booting test9 gives me: PCI: failed to allocate resource 0 for: Q Logic ISP1020 PCI: failed to allocate resource 0 for: <dec tulip card> PCI: failed to allocate resource 0 for: <3com card> Then it gets to: Net4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. and hard locks this is an alphaserver 1000a (noritake) with a pci-pci bridge. the qlogic scsi and the 2 nics are on the secondary bus. No 2.4 kernels have ever worked on this machine. .config available upon request. (as if anyone's going to answer me anyway, noone has yet) -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/