v2.5.32 - v2.5.64+ Locks at Boot with Athlon Machine

[Jim Peterson]

  I've tried versions 2.5.32, 2.5.59, 2.5.61, and 2.5.64, as well as version 2.5.31 and
  earlier on my machine.  Every version from 2.5.32 and above locks up after printing:

        Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.

  I've noticed there have been some significant changes in what I understand of the boot
  process at this point, but I can't decipher the assembly hardly at all well enough to
  try to investigate further.  Is there any place that I can acquire a set of the
  separate, unrelated patches that happened between 2.5.31 (which boots) and 2.5.32?
  I'm basically a trained monkey when it comes to debugging this kind of thing, so I'm
  going to have to try the old "back out a patch and see if it works" technique.

  My config file is pretty bare-bones, I've tried with and without the "mem=nopentium"
  and "noauto" kernel parameters (as dredged up via Google).  I've also tried replacing
  setup.S from v2.5.31, this just immediately reboots.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
--Jim

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 1391.718
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 2778.72

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CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
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