"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes: > If the upper 32-bits of some parameter we pass in has garbage in > it, we'll totally die in the firmware. >From experience reported in my last message, it looks as if this is specific to the installer (or at least only shows up there for some reason) and it's leaving some bad state behind, since reset will get it going after the installation. Sarge's silo got the system booted eventually.