Just before I got your suggestion, I tried just that (disabling the PNP Bios) .. I looked up the trace addresses in the system.map (which I forgot to include) and saw that it was from the pnp bios) .. It did the trick :) I will also see if there's an updated bios available .. Thanks! Terry > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alan Cox > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 10:25 AM > To: Terry Katz > Cc: Linux Kernel > Subject: Re: 2.4.[35] + Dell Poweredge 8450 + Oops on boot > > > > isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... > > isapnp: No Plug & Play device found > > PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f68f0 > > PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:a611, dseg at 400 > Unable to > > handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000ff48 printing > > eip: 00003c9c *pde = 00000000 > > Oops: 0002 > > CPU: 0 > > EIP: 0068:[<00003c9c>] > > Your Pnp BIOS crahsed somewhere in the BIOS when we called it > - Disable PnP bios support or get a bios update > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/