>>>>> On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:28:32 -0800 , "TWEDE,ROGER (HP-Boise,ex1)" <roger_twede@hp.com> said: roger> I traced the NFS root boot failure to a change made in the the roger> function arch_get_unmapped_area(...). The system goes from roger> functional to non-functional with a single function change made roger> in 2.4.18. linux/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c :: roger> arch_get_unmapped_area(...), COLOUR_ALIGN Just for your information, I also met this problem when I switched back to old redhat-6.0 userland. More recent userlands (RedHat 7.0, 7.1, Debian) seems free from this trouble. --- Atsushi Nemoto