From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i586) bootup stops every time on Gigabyte GA-5AA motherboard, K6-2 450 processor with the following dump ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Red Hat Linux Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. Scheduling in interrupt kernel BUG at sched.c: 707! invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP:: 0010:[<c0113f73>] EFLAGS: 0010286 eax: 0000001b ebx: c076c000 ecx: 00000001 edx: c0256ca4 esi: 00080000 edi: cbbdb300 ebp: c026dfdc esp: c026dfb0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss:0018 Process swapper (pid:0, stackpage=c026d000) Stack: c020be5b c020bfd6 000002c3 c026c000 co26c000 00000000 c026c000 00000018 c026c000 c0107220 c026c000 0006e000 c01072be 0000bff0 00079800 00105000 c026e8db c02ab040 00000000 c0100191 Call Trace: [<c020be5b>] [<c020bfd6>] [<c0107220>] [<c01072be>] [<c0105000>] [<c0100191>] code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 8d 65 f4 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 Kernel panic: Aiee, Killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot system 2. 3. Actual Results: Welcome to Red Hat Linux Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. Scheduling in interrupt kernel BUG at sched.c: 707! invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP:: 0010:[<c0113f73>] EFLAGS: 0010286 eax: 0000001b ebx: c076c000 ecx: 00000001 edx: c0256ca4 esi: 00080000 edi: cbbdb300 ebp: c026dfdc esp: c026dfb0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss:0018 Process swapper (pid:0, stackpage=c026d000) Stack: c020be5b c020bfd6 000002c3 c026c000 co26c000 00000000 c026c000 00000018 c026c000 c0107220 c026c000 0006e000 c01072be 0000bff0 00079800 00105000 c026e8db c02ab040 00000000 c0100191 Call Trace: [<c020be5b>] [<c020bfd6>] [<c0107220>] [<c01072be>] [<c0105000>] [<c0100191>] code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 8d 65 f4 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 Kernel panic: Aiee, Killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing Expected Results: System boots normally None.
Could you try adding "no-hlt" to the lilo-prompt to see if that fixes it ?