See my earlier post today, it is due to the PnP probe.
If you boot a kernel which is older than Mikes commit,
you can boot the new kernel after a soft reboot...
Poul-Henning
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Stromberg writes:
Background:
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Work recently assigned me a Gateway
This appears to be due to our PnP BIOS invocation not being
sufficiently bug-compatible with some BIOSsen. I'm going to need to do
some more work on this, and if you have time I'd like to get you
involved in the testing process.
Meanwhile I'll be disabling the PnP BIOS scan which should
