From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) All attempts to boot with a kicker floppy die at the message: "Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode." This was not a problem with "Fisher" (install died due to anaconda bug). cat of /proc/cpuinfo under Red Hat 6.2: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 4 model : 14 model name : Am5x86-WT stepping : 4 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu bogomips : 66.56 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to boot from boot.img or bootnet.img. Actual Results: System hangs with keyboard locked. Expected Results: System should have continued to boot and brought up install screens. None
This is fixed in the current rawhide kernel.