after installing RH6.2 on a AMD based computer after reboot and in the very beggining of the loading proccess (trying to disable CPUID feature..) i get Kernel panic and a mem dump and i can do nothing else... my CFG is AMD athlon 900 MHz ASUS A7V motherboard BIOS 1004D 128MB dimm 133 Creative geforce2 HDD western digital 20GB (ata100,7200rpm) thank you in advance,michael
work around coming up with another system (try a small 6.1), mount your 6.2 system, build a new kernel without feature _cpu id disable_ (from 6.1 2.2.12 or 6.2 2.2.14), copy the kernel, the corresponding modules and all boot stuff to the 6.2 hard disk and make a bootdisk (mkbootdisk). then, boot your 6.2 from floppy disk with the new kernel, rebuild your 2.2.14 kernel, edit /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo. rem: with kernel 2.2.14 i wasn't able to get a working nfs server yet (nfs modules failed). with kernel versions higher than 2.2.14 (2.2.16 up to 2.4) the kernel panics with aic78xxx module (on 64 bit 29160 host adapter)
looking around in kernel faq results in: http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/ThunderBird-Duron.html
Since this is fixed in errata and in 7.0 and has a web page at Red Hat explaining how to work around it to get 6.2 running, I'm going to resolve this as fixed in errata.