Hi everyone Thank you for your ideas and suggestions. Turns out, the culprit was...Baud Rate--set too high. Argh. Why won't the baud rate leave me alone? Anyway, we've got a kernel half-booting-then-oopsing now, so we'll just keep going. Again, thanks for everyone's help. Ben -- Benjamin Collar Siemens AG CT SE 2 Embedded Linux 089-636-53711