I am running: Red Hat Version 6.2 (I believe it is the Deluxe version, but not sure.) AMD 1Ghz processor ASUS A7Pro motherboard Matrox G450 Video Card Intel 100/Pro Management Network card 128 megs of memory. I installed Red Hat linux using server install, however during the initial boot sequence. After it tries to disable the processor ID. I get swapping failed. a display of my registers and memory. I installed a promo copy of Storm Linux 2000, which booted up correctly. I would prefer to use Red Hat though.
This is caused by the default kernel trying to disable serial numbers in the processor, which your AMD processor doesn't have and is resulting in a processor fault. The 2.2.16-3 and later kernel errata for Red Hat Linux 6.2 have a fix for this in place already. In order to boot your machine up, at the lilo prompt type: linux x86_serial_nr to cause the kernel to not try and disable CPU serial numbers on your AMD CPU. That way you can then upgrade your kernel, or you can add the x86_serial_nr option as an append item in your lilo.conf file so that you don't have to upgrade kernels, either way will solve the issue.