Hi Alan, > > > Firstly however does 2.4.1 (Linus) boot ? > > > > It does boot. :-) Is there something I can do now? > > Ok that means its something in my patches. > > Time to do some patch searching. I see two probable candidates - the > local apic code and the pci changes. > > Does 2.4.1 with the following patch applied still boot No, it doesn't boot anymore (hangs at probing pci hardware again). I hope this helps. :-) Ookhoi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/