[ILUG] AMD Athlons and RedHat 6.2

[Scanlan, Brian (5188)]

You can pass an option to the kernel to disable the CPU Serial
Number querying...

lilo: linux x86_serial_nr=0 

It's a bug in the kernel. This is a workaround. Anything
more recent than the kernel on 6.2 doesn't suffer from this problem!

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Sweetnam [mailto:ilug at elbob.com]
Sent: 29 November 2000 17:26
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] AMD Athlons and RedHat 6.2


Hi All,

I have a pretty curious problem as the subject states.
I have 9 machines here, all the same spec they are NEC Directions with 
Athlon 900's and a VIA chip set with 133Mhz SDRAM. I had no problem 
installing RedHat 6.2 but immediatly after the reboot I get a 
Segmentation fault at the CPU ID phase of boot up. This occurs on a line 
that also reads disabling CPU Serial Number. straight away after this it 
comes up with a Kernel panic.

Anyone see anything similar or is it a known bug with the Athlons and 
Linux?

Best Regards
Robert



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