Christophe, With this patch, it gets further. Sometime after the boot process tries to start process init, it crashes with the unable to read data at 0x000157a0 with a faulting address of 0xc001683c. The screenshot is attached and the gzipped vmlinux is at http://www.lwfinger.com/download/vmlinux2.gz. The patches that were applied for this kernel are also attached, Larry