Well, I got everything working now :-) But I am still getting a crazy kernel crash :-(
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 14k freed BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 7c142450 printing eip: c047d698 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c047d698>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010006 (2.6.23.15-80.fc7 #1) EIP is at kmem_cache_alloc+0x36/0x99 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c043af87 edx: 7c142444 esi: dfd36000 edi: 00000286 ebp: 000000d0 esp: c0738ef0 ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c0738000 task=c06f5340 task.ti=c0738000) Stack: c042dea8 00000000 00000000 00800b00 00800b00 c0738f80 c043af87 00000206 00000046 c042dea8 00000000 00000046 c0738fc8 00000000 00800b00 00800b00 c0738f80 c042c969 00000000 00000046 00cf9000 fffb6c73 00000000 c100e798 Call Trace: [<c042dea8>] vprintk+0x2a5/0x2e0 [<c043af87>] alloc_pid+0x16/0x243 [<c042dea8>] vprintk+0x2a5/0x2e0 [<c042c969>] do_fork+0x12/0x17e [<c073d3e0>] kernel_init+0x0/0x360 [<c0403358>] kernel_thread+0x8e/0x96 [<c073d3e0>] kernel_init+0x0/0x360 [<c0405db4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 [<c061b775>] rest_init+0x11/0x4a [<c073da6c>] start_kernel+0x32c/0x334 [<c073d177>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x195 ======================= Code: 8b 4c 24 18 9c 58 90 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 89 c7 fa 90 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 90 64 a1 08 c0 77 c0 8b 94 86 90 00 00 00 85 d2 74 06 <83> 7a 0c 00 75 17 89 54 24 04 89 f0 89 ea 89 0c 24 83 c9 ff e8 EIP: [<c047d698>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x36/0x99 SS:ESP 0068:c0738ef0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org