From: user@example.net   
      
   I have run into a really strange problem, and #Gentoo and #Gentoo-Kernel don't   
   seem to offer any help.   
      
   I have two Asus Crosshair II Formula motherboards. One has the 2009 BIOS (AMD   
   9550 CPU, 5 HD) and the other the 0040 BIOS (this one has two GF8600 cards and   
   AMD 9850 CPU, 1 HD), otherwise they are the same, same type of memory.   
      
   The problem is with the one with BIOS 2009, it boots only one kernel, a kernel   
   gentoo-2.6.30-r1 I compiled 22 of July with the tun patch applied manually. If   
   I copy a working kernel from the BIOS 0040, it don't boot, I compile a kernel   
   on the machine (I tried with gcc 4.1.2, 4.3.2 and 4.4.1) the kernel won't boot.   
      
   I have rebuilt the toolchain, I have even used the one from the other machine,   
   still the same result.   
      
   I have tried with different versions of grub, from 0.96 ro 0.97-r9 and even   
   the grub-static-0.97-r9, no difference there.   
      
   I have tried an earlier BIOS on the 2009 (this is the last version I have   
   changed to and it's the latest released by Asus).   
      
   I have used the old config from the working gentoo-2.6.30-r1 by using   
      
   zcat /proc/config.gz > .config && make oldconfig   
      
   I have started from scratch, I have copied the config from the other machine   
   and run an make oldconfig on it and then tried to compile the same version of   
   the kernel, with no success.   
      
   I have made a copy of the only working kernels directory, made a make mrproper   
   and then copy over the .config and run make oldconfig and then make && make   
   modules_install (and of course copy the new kernel to /boot), but still no   
   luck.   
      
   The kernel always compiles without any errors, I have everything I need for   
   booting, file system, SATA drivers built in, so I don't use nor need the inird.   
      
   Building anything else on the machine work as it should, no faults, nor   
   coredumps or segfaults.   
      
   The only difference I can see is at the point when the Grub has loaded the   
   kernel, on the only booting one it says:   
      
   setup 0x2e00   
      
   while on all other kernels I get   
      
   setup 0x32000   
      
   after displaying this, the grub becomes frozen, the cursor do still blink, but   
   the kernel seems to not be really loaded or that it fails in the early stages   
   of uncompress.   
      
      
   I really do not know what to do, I have nothing broken when running   
   revdep-rebuild, I have rebuilt everything with emerge -eu system just a couple   
   of weeks ago and I have had this problem from the day when I tried to compile   
   gentoo-2.6.30-r3 and the problem is there also with gentoo-2.6.31, so it don't   
   seem to be the 2.6.30 bugginess.   
      
   I would really wish to get this fixed, but I have run out of ideas.   
      
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