> In message <200011200137.eAK1bZE02360@trigati.home.net> you wrote:

> I've tried booting the machine with the same install kernel, but now have a
> different error. The only thing that has changed with the machine it the
> amount of RAM it has - gone from 66->162Mb (in case this has something to do
> with the problem!). The pool_panic error before the installation of this RAM
> was consistent.
> 
> The machine boots, and:
> probes podule 0 (disabled viewfinder) reporting it is an acorn ether3 card, 
> probes podule 1 which is a cumana scsi 2 card,
Ah that's interesting the other crash also involved one of these.

> probes podule 2 which is a simtec idefs card (going to be used in
> installation) and then...
>  
May not be a Simtec card problem SCSI device probing is defered until 
all cards are enumerated.

> *Bang!*
> 
> vm_fault (0xf0312c34,0,3,0)->1
> Unhandled trap (frame=0xf0354d8C)
> Data abort: 'Permission error (page)' status = 00f address= 00000080
> 					PC=f00e7bf4
> Stopped in swapper at 0xf00e7bf4: str r2, [r1, #0x0080]
> db>trace
> ?(0xf00e7690)
> ?(0xf00e6098)
> ?(0xf003103c)
> ?(0xf00310a4)
> ?(0xf0031208)
> ?(0xf00e6a7c)
> ?(0xf0031484)
> ?(0xf00312a0)
> ?(0xf0110014)
> ?(0xf0030fa0)					 
> ?(0xf001de20)
> ?(0xf000005c)
> 
You don't have the kernel symbols loaded this makes things impossible 
to decipher. 

Could you do this again with the symbols loaded. IIRC this is an option 
in the bootloader configuration.

Thanks

Mike