So! I went ahead and enabled elf tracing in the sources of the boot loader to try and figure out why the boot process is locking so early in the kernel load on PPC... http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=14wr68n&s=4 Am I crazy or does that last elf load look incomplete (file_systems/bfs) prior to jumping to the kernel? -- Thanks! Alexander von Gluck http://haikufire.com