Mother board is Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5. A 4.3.5 kernel works fine. Attached is my dmesg after failing to boot and going to rescue mode. amd_iommu_dump was set on the cmdline. kernel is x86_64 My kernel config as relates to the IOMMU: grep -i iommu .config # CONFIG_GART_IOMMU is not set # CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU is not set CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y CONFIG_VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1=m CONFIG_IOMMU_API=y CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT=y # Generic IOMMU Pagetable Support CONFIG_IOMMU_IOVA=y CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y # CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU_STATS is not set CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU_V2=m CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU=y CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU_SVM=y CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU_DEFAULT_ON=y CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU_FLOPPY_WA=y # CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS is not set Regards Mark