I came across the same prob recently with an AMD Duron 750Mhz and Redhat 6.2
with a similar VIA chipset on a Gigabyte motherboard etc. Ended up
installing mandrake 7.2
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Sweetnam <ilug at elbob.com>
To: ilug at linux.ie <ilug at linux.ie>
Date: 29 November 2000 17:25
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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