Perhaps i have the same bug as mentioned by Rudolph Pereira. My system is a debian sarge with some latest backports.org packages. My box is a standard Intel 1425 Server.
If i boot without console redirection it works. If i have console redirection enabled it hangs up on boot, this is my serial console output: INIT: version 2.86 booting Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd. Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done. Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:08: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c printing eip: b0209058 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: psmouse pcspkr i2c_i801 serio_raw evdev 8250_pnp shpchp hw_random pci_hotplug i2c_core rtc floppy ext3 jbd mbcache ata_piix sd_mod ide_cd cdrom ahci libata piix generic 3w_xxxx ehci_hcd uhci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore ide_core e1000 thermal processor fan CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<b0209058>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.17-2-686 #1) EIP is at uart_write_room+0x9/0x16 eax: b19b9400 ebx: 00000006 ecx: 00000006 edx: 00000000 esi: ef392000 edi: eeea7f28 ebp: dfa3b400 esp: eeea7ecc ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process S03udev (pid: 2097, threadinfo=eeea6000 task=dfcd9580) Stack: b01fc688 fffffff2 00000000 eeea7f28 00000006 b01fdf36 dfa3b400 dfa3b400 ef416840 ef392000 00000000 dfcd9580 b01193f1 00000000 00000000 b0147b89 080c2de8 00000012 00000000 dfcd9580 b01193f1 ef392138 ef392138 dfca3a7c Call Trace: <b01fc688> opost_block+0x13/0x107 <b01fdf36> write_chan+0x118/0x1d7 <b01193f1> default_wake_function+0x0/0xc <b0147b89> do_wp_page 0x88/0x293 <b01193f1> default_wake_function+0x0/0xc <b01f9cbe> tty_write 0x14b/0x1d8 <b01fde1e> write_chan+0x0/0x1d7 <b01f9d67> redirected_tty_write 0x1c/0x71 <b0156096> vfs_write+0xad/0x14e <b01561d5> sys_write+0x3c/0x62 <b0102b4f> syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: a9 8b 54 24 04 8b 44 24 08 e8 d3 52 07 00 8b 44 24 10 e8 4b fb ff ff 8b 04 24 83 c4 14 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 8b 80 80 01 00 00 8b 50 10 <8b> 42 0c 2b 42 08 48 25 ff 0f 00 00 c3 8b 80 80 01 00 00 8b 50 EIP: [<b0209058>] uart_write_room+0x9/0x16 SS:ESP 0068:eeea7ecc linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 (2.6.17-8~bpo.1) initramfs-tools (0.80~bpo.1) klibc-utils (1.4.27-1~bpo.1) libklibc (1.4.27-1~bpo.1) libvolume-id0 (0.100-1~bpo.1) initramfs-tools (0.80~bpo.1) klibc-utils (1.4.27-1~bpo.1) libklibc (1.4.27-1~bpo.1) libvolume-id0 (0.100-1~bpo.1) udev (0.100-1~bpo.1) Regards, Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]