Hi, I tried installing Redhat 6.2 on my new Slot A Athlon machine. The instillation goes well, until finished and you must reboot. On the reboot the kernel falls over and the machine freezes with the message :- Disabling CPUID Serial number...general protection fault: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c02340f4>] EFLAGS 00010282 This seems to be caused becuase the install script if flagging the Slot A Athlon as a i686 machine, and installing the 686 kernel. This kernel seems to have been compiled with the CPUID option. I guess the code that is run here works on a PIII, but on an Athlon it just turns over and dies. This seems to be a problem with the installer - if the Althon was flagged as a 386 machine I guess it would work. I note I'm not the only person with this problem, see :- http://bugs.gnome.org/db/18/18159-b.html Some auxillery information. Redhat 6.0 based on the 2.2.5 kernel installs and runs fine. Upgraded the RPMs to the 6.2 set + errata (including the 2.2.16-3 i386 kernel) also runs fine. The kernel 2.4.0-test7 compiled for a Athlon also runs fine. Hope this helps, David Summers.
Oops typo in the above. My machine is a Socket A Althlon. The other person noted above with the same problem was Slot A. The only thing common between his and my set up is the Athlon processor and Redhat 6.2 David.
The installer uses the output from the uname program to determine the architecture. This is a kernel issue.
*** Bug 17334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16229 ***