Hi Alan, ac17 oopsed on boot, ac16 runs fine. Here is the output of lspci -v and ksymoops. I hope I did not make too many typos when I copied the oops. Regards, Petr lspci -v output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1130 (rev 11) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80df Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [88] #09 [f205] 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1132 (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80df Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2448 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff Memory behind bridge: f4100000-f41fffff 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 244c (rev 03) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 244a (rev 03) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80df Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 I/O ports at 1800 [size=16] 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset USB (Hub A) (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80df Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9 I/O ports at 1820 [size=32] 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset SMBus (rev 03) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80df Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 1810 [size=16] 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset USB (Hub B) (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80df Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 2400 [size=32] 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2445 (rev 03) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80df Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256] I/O ports at 1840 [size=64] 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2446 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80df Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 2000 [size=256] I/O ports at 1880 [size=128] 01:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8021 (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80df Flags: medium devsel Memory at f4104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=2K] Memory at f4100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 01:02.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80df Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Memory at f4106000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=01, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0 I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003 I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 01:02.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80df Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Memory at f4107000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=01, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=0 I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003 I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset Ethernet (rev 03) Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3013 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 9 Memory at f4105000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] I/O ports at 3000 [size=64] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 ------------------------------------------------ ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.5-ac16. Options used -V (specified) -K (specified) -L (specified) -o /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac17 (specified) -m /boot/System.map-2.4.5-ac17 (specified) No modules in ksyms, skipping objects Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000030 c019c23c *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c019c23c>] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010086 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000286 ecx: c0267784 edx: c14f7fd3 esi: 00000040 edi: 00000000 ebp: 0008e000 esp: c14f7fb4 Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c14f7000) Stack: c14f7fd3 c0255fc0 c018f0cb c0267784 00000040 c14f7fd3 c0287b58 00000000 c0260c05 c0256856 00010f00 c0256892 c010503b 00010f00 c0255fc0 c010545c 00000000 00000078 00098700 Call Trace: [<c018f0cb>] [<c010503b>] [<c010545c>] Code: 8b 40 30 52 56 51 8b 00 ff d0 83 c4 0c 53 9d 5b 5e c3 89 f6 >>EIP; c019c23c <pci_read_config_byte+14/28> <===== Trace; c018f0cb <i810tco_getdevice+4b/140> Trace; c010503b <init+7/11c> Trace; c010545c <kernel_thread+28/38> Code; c019c23c <pci_read_config_byte+14/28> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c019c23c <pci_read_config_byte+14/28> <===== 0: 8b 40 30 mov 0x30(%eax),%eax <===== Code; c019c23f <pci_read_config_byte+17/28> 3: 52 push %edx Code; c019c240 <pci_read_config_byte+18/28> 4: 56 push %esi Code; c019c241 <pci_read_config_byte+19/28> 5: 51 push %ecx Code; c019c242 <pci_read_config_byte+1a/28> 6: 8b 00 mov (%eax),%eax Code; c019c244 <pci_read_config_byte+1c/28> 8: ff d0 call *%eax Code; c019c246 <pci_read_config_byte+1e/28> a: 83 c4 0c add $0xc,%esp Code; c019c249 <pci_read_config_byte+21/28> d: 53 push %ebx Code; c019c24a <pci_read_config_byte+22/28> e: 9d popf Code; c019c24b <pci_read_config_byte+23/28> f: 5b pop %ebx Code; c019c24c <pci_read_config_byte+24/28> 10: 5e pop %esi Code; c019c24d <pci_read_config_byte+25/28> 11: c3 ret Code; c019c24e <pci_read_config_byte+26/28> 12: 89 f6 mov %esi,%esi <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! -- While you recently had your problems on the run, they've regrouped and are making another attack. - 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/