Hi, i am seeing this on my R4k Decstation (5000/150) This was the first try [...] Freeing unused PROM memory: 124k freed Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed [init:1] Illegal instruction 0320f809 at 0fb651c4 ra=0fb651cc [init:1] Illegal instruction 8f998018 at 0fb651c8 ra=0fb651cc Second try doesnt give me any output at all after the "Freeing unused kernel ..." CVS Checkout @ 20010108 ~15:00 MESZ This DECstation is a DS5000/1xx Loading R4000 MMU routines. CPU revision is: 00000430 Primary instruction cache 8kb, linesize 16 bytes. Primary data cache 8kb, linesize 16 bytes. Secondary cache sized at 1024K linesize 32 bytes. Linux version 2.4.0-test11 (flo@paradigm) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Jan 8 15:35:19 CET 2001 Determined physical RAM map: memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable) On node 0 totalpages: 16384 zone(0): 16384 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: console=ttyS2 root=/dev/sda2 Calibrating delay loop... 49.81 BogoMIPS Memory: 62600k/65536k available (1269k kernel code, 2936k reserved, 69k data, 60k init) [...] Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?