I've seen something very similar some time ago in a ppc 750 but was not a linux kernel. The point is that the memory was not ''cleaned'' when the machine was rebooted and just a few bytes (first 8 bytes in every 64k, I think...) were corrupted after the reboot. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/