all of the snapshots since the 24th have exhibited this same or very similar behavior. when booting from the kern & mfsroot floppies i get: . . . unknown: <PNP0e03> can't assign resources unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources pccard: card inserted, slot 0 kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while it kernel mode instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc02e3858 stack pointer = 0x10:0xc78c8f50 frame pointer = 0x10:0xc78c8f64 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 19 (irq9: uhci0) trap number = 9 panic: general protection fault i only get this on my vaio (PCG-XG9); several other pc's i tried these boot floppies on boot and run sysinstall just fine. none of my other test boxes have USB though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message