diff --git a/sys/arch/atari/atari/locore.s b/sys/arch/atari/atari/locore.s
index 0de54b1f291d..8818ebd6a91d 100644
--- a/sys/arch/atari/atari/locore.s
+++ b/sys/arch/atari/atari/locore.s
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$NetBSD: locore.s,v 1.86 2002/02/11 10:44:38 wiz Exp $	*/
+/*	$NetBSD: locore.s,v 1.87 2002/05/19 20:26:58 leo Exp $	*/
 
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 1988 University of Utah.
@@ -880,8 +880,12 @@ Lstart0:
 	jle	Lstart0
 	/*
 	 * Enter kernel at destination address and continue copy
+	 * The 'start2' label is used to defeat the assembler optimizer. If
+	 * we jump to a local label, it tries to use a pc-relative jump.
+	 * Which is definitely not what is needed at this point!
 	 */
-	jmp	Lstart2
+	jmp	_ASM_LABEL(start2)
+GLOBAL(start2)
 Lstart2:
 	movl	%a0@+,%a5@+		| copy the rest of the kernel
 	subl	#4, %d4