Hi Andrew, Following Kernel panic was raised, when tried to boot using IA-64 machine with 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 kernel. =============================================== [ 15.198125] target0:0:8: Ending Domain Validation [ 15.203117] target0:0:8: asynchronous [ 15.207377] scsi 0:0:8:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 3 [ 16.971340] GSI 41 (level, low) -> CPU 4 (0x1000) vector 72 [ 16.977053] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:03.1[B] -> GSI 41 (level, low) -> IRQ 72 [ 16.984767] mptbase: Initiating ioc1 bringup [ 17.465344] ioc1: LSI53C1030 C0: Capabilities={Initiator} [ 15.180382] scsi1 : ioc1: LSI53C1030 C0, FwRev=01032821h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=72 [ 20.376426] GSI 142 (level, low) -> CPU 5 (0x1200) vector 73 [ 20.382298] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:41:03.0[A] -> GSI 142 (level, low) -> IRQ 73 [ 20.390209] mptbase: Initiating ioc2 bringup [ 20.873561] ioc2: LSI53C1030 C0: Capabilities={Initiator} [ 20.880366] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 263200 bytes at device ? [ 20.886858] Kernel panic - not syncing: DMA: Memory would be corrupted Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal.