I think this series broke FPU emulation, crashing in early boot: [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 0.000000] __ex_table already sorted, skipping sort [ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0 [ 0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [ 0.000000] IP: [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x13/0x130 [ 0.000000] *pde = 00000000 [ 0.000000] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 0.000000] Modules linked in: [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.9.0-rc6+ #221907 [ 0.000000] EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00210046 CPU: 0 [ 0.000000] EIP is at kmem_cache_alloc+0x13/0x130 [ 0.000000] EAX: 00000000 EBX: b156dfa0 ECX: 0000007b EDX: 000000d0 [ 0.000000] ESI: effd09c0 EDI: 00000000 EBP: b1563ea4 ESP: b1563e78 [ 0.000000] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 [ 0.000000] CR0: 80050037 CR2: 00000000 CR3: 015fa000 CR4: 00000690 [ 0.000000] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 [ 0.000000] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 [ 0.000000] Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=b1562000 task=b156dfa0 task.ti=b1562000) [ 0.000000] Stack: [ 0.000000] 3b9aca00 00000000 b1563e8c b11cfb0c 000000d0 b1563eb8 b10277d2 b1706040 [ 0.000000] b156dfa0 effd09c0 b13ed7a0 b1563eb0 b1008827 b1563f44 b1563f3c b132fa45 [ 0.000000] b1563ed8 b1027c80 00000000 00000000 b1706062 00000001 b1563ee0 00200046 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [] ? sprintf+0x1c/0x20 [ 0.000000] [] ? print_time.part.5+0x82/0xc0 [ 0.000000] [] ? do_debug+0x150/0x150 [ 0.000000] [] init_fpu+0x67/0xa0 [ 0.000000] [] math_emulate+0x695/0xc40 [ 0.000000] [] ? print_prefix+0x60/0xa0 [ 0.000000] [] ? sub_preempt_count+0x8/0x80 [ 0.000000] [] ? sub_preempt_count+0x8/0x80 [ 0.000000] [] ? wake_up_klogd+0x49/0x70 [ 0.000000] [] ? console_unlock+0x365/0x4c0 [ 0.000000] [] ? do_debug+0x150/0x150 [ 0.000000] [] do_device_not_available+0x3e/0x80 [ 0.000000] [] error_code+0x6c/0x74 [ 0.000000] [] ? fpu_init+0x80/0xf5 [ 0.000000] [] cpu_init+0x2b0/0x2b8 [ 0.000000] [] trap_init+0x243/0x24b [ 0.000000] [] start_kernel+0x1b1/0x363 [ 0.000000] [] ? repair_env_string+0x51/0x51 [ 0.000000] [] i386_start_kernel+0x12c/0x12f [ 0.000000] Code: 0c 89 f0 e8 50 f4 ff ff 5b 5e 5d c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 ec 20 e8 c2 90 2f 00 89 c7 89 55 e4 <8b> 07 64 03 05 94 d6 5e b1 8b 58 04 8b 00 85 c0 89 45 ec 74 76 [ 0.000000] EIP: [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x13/0x130 SS:ESP 0068:b1563e78 [ 0.000000] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]--- [ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! [ 0.000000] Rebooting in 1 seconds..Press any key to enter the menu Config attached. Thanks, Ingo