I applied the patch and the kernel built, but like 2.6.9-mm2-VP-S9 it crashed before it could load. The last bit of the message was a lot of what I guess are frame pointers, but there was a few lines that had info. For example an RIP message having to do with add_preempt_count+16 But it all ended with Aieee... I have yet to get any VP kernel to run on my x86_64. I suppose I should try just the mm3 or mm4 patches without the VP portion, so that is what I will do. Any other ideas? Thanks for the help! -thewade