From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031022 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: Hardware: Athlon64 3200+ http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=496 MSI Neo motherboard Built by ATI Radeon 9200 160MB IDE hard drive on VIA VT8237 PATA /dev/hda Problem: Kernel panic during partition check of hda when booting from Disc 1. Same problem with boot.iso for x86_64 from rawhide. http://togami.com/~warren/archive/2003/rhel3amd64-panic.jpg The best I could get for the moment is a photo of the panic dump https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107805 dmesg, lspci and more information about this hardware from 32bit Linux Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 3 AS for AMD64
Chip Turner had the answer. "idle=poll" makes it bootable. > It disables using the 'hlt instruction when the system is idle,instead using a > polling technique. Apparently busted firmware in anumber of BIOSs didn't > properly restore the entire 64bit currentinstruction address, restoring > instead only the botton 32 bits -- nota good thing :) Check for bios updates. > Asus hasn't released anofficial update for the K8V yet (the board I have) but > they do have abeta bios that did the trick. Checking with hardware manufacturer...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103052 ***