Description of problem:

(This is a resubmit of bug 79710 which escaped on me before I had completed it.)

Boot hangs with about two screen of mesages that repeat every second or so.
The second (or last) screen contains messages (hand copied) like:
   handle-vm86-fault
    handle-vm86-fault
    proc-do-poolsize
    proc-do-poolsize
    ip-fra-reasm
    ip-fra-reasm
block repeated to fill page.

It looked like the first page of errors may have contained something else, but
it flies past to quickly to see.

Machine is a Sony Viao laptop that runs fine with RedHat 8.0 kernels.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.20-0.pp.7.i686.rpm

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot kernel-2.4.20-0.pp.7
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Actual results:
boot process hangs

Expected results:
regular boot

Additional info: