As you will see in the attached file (it's a dmesg from the boot) I have an 1Ghz athlon cpu with a VIA KT133 on a gigabyte GA-7ZX motherboard with 100mhz SDRAM.When I compiled the kernel with cputype=Athlon I continiusly experienced this crash.When I compiled with cputype=i686 everything went smooth (OS is Redhat 7.1) Yours Theodore Pitikaris