Further information: The system in question is a Celestica A8440 [1]. If I pass "nomce" to the kernel boot options, to bypass Machine Check Exceptions, then I can almost get the kernel-image-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8-smp to a working state. It hangs on loading the "Real Time Clock Driver v1.12" but I can bypass this with Ctrl-C. It hangs again on "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference", but again I can Ctrl-C past this and get to a login prompt. Unsurprisingly, the machine then hangs on shutdown at "Saving the System Clock time to the Hardware Clock". Alex [1] http://portal.atcelestica.com/public/global/suppchman/alpha/alphadw.nsf/downloads/000011/$file/A8440%20English%20SCREEN.pdf -- Mail: Alex Page <alex.page@cancer.org.uk> Real: Systems/Network Assistant, Epidemiology Unit, Oxford Tel: 01865 302 223 (external) / 223 (internal) PGP: DDD0 1FE0 340C DC38 190F AC9F 24B6 7426 88DD D2C8
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