Something appears to be broken. One of my servers is going through seemingly random spontaneous reboots with nothing to indicate why. model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) features : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse It's a VIA Technologies chipset. I had no problems with it on test8, it ran happily for 29 days before the upgrade. I build the kernel on the same machine (nec versa lx) that I build with for all my other software. boot dmesg is at http://stuph.org/dmesg-lastboot, I don't have anything else to go on at the moment, consider this a heads up that something is broken. -d