Best would be someone who thoroughly understands that boot loader's expectations examining the vmlinux image to see what's wrong. I'm not that someone, but if you send me the images made before and after that patch, I can examine them and speculate what the problem might be. Thanks, Roland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html