Hello, i got a used MSI-6330 board with an Athlon 1000. Now there is a problem at boot time (see boot messages below). Does any one of you have what the actual problem is (and how to solve it, perhaps)? I tried it with the installation kernel of SuSE 8.1 and with version 2.4.19 but none worked. noapic option does not help. Perhaps the SuSE kernel lacks the VIA southbridge patch (and the 2.4.19 as well?). If yes, where do i get it? Thanks in advance, Stefan Here is the boot message: Linux version 2.4.19 ... BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000ec000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000013fe0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000013fe0000 - 0000000013ff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000013ff8000 - 0000000014000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Scanning bios EBDA for MXT signature 319MB LOWMEM available. Advanced speculative caching feature not present On node 0 totalpages: 81888 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 77792 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Building zonelist for node : 0 3120020,, expert=1 ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noapic noisapnp console=ttyS0,2400 ide_setup: ide=nodmaIDE: Prevented DMA Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1001.801 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1998.84 BogoMIPS 152k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel ACPI: Subsystem revision 20020829 ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb81, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 02): [55] 81 & 1f -> 01 PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address bfcfdcc7 printing eip: bfcfdcc7 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 2.4.19-4GB #1 Fri Sep 13 13:14:56 UTC 2002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<bfcfdcc7>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: 00000000 ebx: c0290000 ecx: 03051100 edx: 03051106 esi: 00000000 edi: c02d0000 ebp: 00000000 esp: d3b4bf66 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=d3b4b000) Stack: c00fde0f 11540000 03050000 b1020000 c00fdc59 00001106 c00fdba4 0d710246 0010c011 11f30000 0000c029 40000000 11b9d3b4 1106c011 03050000 00000000 bfb60000 bfb7d3b4 0000d3b4 e0000000 bfb80004 bfb8d3b4 11f3d3b4 0000c029 Call Trace: [<c017c3e7>] [<c01f87ef>] [<c013c007>] [<c027c3c7>] [<c013c2fe>] [<c017ec2a>] [<c011e376>] [<c0278fd8>] [<c026516c>] [<c027d4cf>] [<c011e128>] [<c01e5bea>] [<c0248693>] [<c013f420>] [<c0129551>] [<c01c3b20>] [<c023efa1>] [<c01af80d>] [<c024f011>] [<c01bbf78>] [<c0270447>] [<c0125026>] [<c0233046>] [<c027304e>] [<c0283976>] [<c0191caa>] [<c0248061>] [<c01b7802>] [<c020f00c>] [<c018ec5a>] [<c01cbb9b>] [<c013ad79>] [<c01a1145>] [<c026fba1>] [<c0197b3a>] ....