> oldconfig) and it doesn't boot. I get the same message as in this
> thread: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-mips/msg_00503.xml
> 
> NESTED EXCEPTION #1 (vid 0) at EPC: ffffffff9fc6a0a4; first exception
> at PC: 0
> 
> Several weeks before I tried 2.6.20.6 (which wasn't marked stable)
> and couldn't get this to boot either. The system is uptodate. Here is
> my toolchain: gcc-config -l
>  [1] mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-3.4.6 *
>  [2] mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-4.1.1
>  [3] mips-unknown-linux-gnu-3.4.6 *
>  [4] mips-unknown-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp
>  [5] mips-unknown-linux-gnu-4.1.1
> 
> Any new suggestions to solve this apparently known problem?
> 

Have you tried to build your kernel with gcc-4.1.1 instead of 3.4.6?

-Steve