>You can disable CONFIG_XMON, it might then boot (that >is the crash may just turn into an Oops instead of >trying to kick xmon on a serial port you don't have). >A Machine Check means something tried to access a physical >address not matching anything (typically a driver did something >wrong). It could be my experiments to get the ATA/100 >driver working that are going wrong....
Ok, since the ATA-100 may be the culprit, you may also try to edit drivers/ide/ide-pmac.c Just before line 995, add a "return;" statement (that is just before the pci_device_from_OF_node call). I think I have an idea about what's wrong but I need to investigate a bit more. Ben.
