Hi Bin, yes, i've the same problem, in particular, my iBook (PowerBook6,7) hangs after time_init prints. Now i'm building a kernel with some printk to detect if it hangs during console_init. -- Enrico Cataldi - Ungraduate student @ Computer Science mailto: cataenry@gmail.com - Hamradio: IW6DMM home: http://ecataldi.web.cs.unibo.it