Kernel 2.6.15-1.1884_FC5 crashes on boot on Dell Inspiron 8600

[Steven Haigh]

When booting off kernel-2.6.15-1.1884_FC5 the system sets the clock,  
tries to start udev, then dies.

The crash output states:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f8000022  
printing eip:
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/ide0/0.0/modalias
-- snipped a heap of modules to do with sound, network and wifi --
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<f8000022>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.15-1.1884_FC5)
EIP is at 0xf8000022
eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000020 ecx: 0000000 edx: f88875fa
esi: 0000142d edi: 12000021 ebp: 00001432 esp: f74ebd30
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process modprobe (pid: 688, threadinfo=f75b1000 task=f750a000)
Stack: <0>00001437 12000023 0000143c 00000024 00001441 F7000025  
00001446 00000026
0000144b 00000027 00001450 00000028 00001455 f7000029 0000145a f700002a
0000145f ff00002b 00001464 0000002c 00001469 0000002d 0000146e 0000002e
Call Trace:
Code:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Bad EIP value.

The system then attempts to boot after 120 seconds, but doesn't get  
very far before falling in a heap. Anyone got any ideas on this one?

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Steven Haigh

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