When I install Red Hat Linux 6.2 on my PC (CPU:AMD Duron 700Mhz MBoard : BIOSTAR Mem:64Mb Hd:Maxtor 20Gb) All goes well until the generic kernel boots. I receive a kernel panic after the CPUID-call. How can I fix this?
This bug has been fixed in the 2.2.16 kernels and later. It is the kernel trying to disable the PIII serial number -- on the new Thunderbird-core Athlons and Durons. You can get booted with: linux x86_serial_nr=1 at the LILO boot: prompt; from there, you can either upgrade to a 2.2.16 or higher kernel, recompile with the serial number disabler turned off, or simply append that line into your /etc/lilo.conf file. Doug -- you can probably downgrade this one or close it, since the fix is already in place in the newer kernels. This is support's fault -- we've known about this for some time.