2.4.26 kernel BUG at dcache.c:653!

[noir]

This is my first post ever to a mailing list, so I hope I do alright.
The system was idling when it just hung. After a reboot, I get the 
following error with seemingly no way to get into my system.

kernel BUG at dcache.c:653!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c014a122>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010207
eax: 00000000    ebx: 00000000    ecx: d7fbd7e0    edx: 00000000
esi: d7fbd7b0    edi: d7fbd7b0    ebp: d7fbd7b0    esp: d7fe5eb4
ds: 0018    es: 0018    ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=d7fe50000)
Stack: d7c2e060 d7fbd7b0 c0173374 d7fbd7b0 00000000 fffffff4 d7c2e0cc 
d7c2e060
       c014148a d7c2e060 d7fbd7b0 00000000 d7c4100c d7fbd740 d7fe5f74 
c0141ae6
       d7fbd740 d7fe5f0c 00000000 00000001 d7c2e060 00000000 d7c41005 
00000007
Call Trace:    [<c0173374>] [<c014148a>] [<c0141ae6>] [<c0141db9>] 
[<c0105000>]
  [<c01421c4>] [<c01d8463>] [<c01d781d>] [<c0105000>] [<c01369ae>] 
[<c0136d5b>]
  [<c0108d73>] [<c0105000>] [<c01050ad>] [<c0107343>] [<c0105060>]

Code: 0f 0b 8d 02 ba d4 2d c0 85 db 74 12 8b 43 10 8d 53 10 89 48
 <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

If there is any needed information that I have excluded, please let me 
know and I will put it up as soon as possible.
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