Any idea?  Is this a 4GB of memory thing?  Again, I'll try to  
   confirm later that this *doesn't* happen with with dual-CPU Ultra-2 I  
   had been testing with a couple weeks ago.  I've confirmed that a  
   GENERIC kernel from this same source tree comes up alright on this 4  
   CPU machine...  It drops to the single-user shell as expected.


it may be a large ram thing - i see other problems on my u60 with
2GB of ram that martin has not seen, but we have no had a chance
to look closely at these problems yet.


.mrg.