From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-11.3 i686) Description of problem: Cyrix 6x86mx-pr200 either kernel panics or hangs during boot of beta2 install. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot off beta2 cdrom 2.select nofb from sysconfig prompt (gui just hangs with a black screen) 3. Actual Results: Initializing CPU#0 Detected 167.049 Mhz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Linux version 2.4.6-2BOOT (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version 2. 96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-93)) #1 Tue Jul 10 17:34:45 EDT 2001 <4>invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0119478>] EFLAGS: 00010046 eax: 00000000 ebx: c0272800 ecx: c0272bc0 edx: c0272be0 esi: c0272800 edi: c025c900 ebp: c022b1b4 esp: c0241f14 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c0241000) Stack: 00000009 c025e560 c01192ss c025e560 00000000 00000000 c01082ad c02957c0 000f420a c026a6e9 00000000 c010a5e1 c02957c0 00000099 c02903fd 000f420a c026a6e9 00000000 00000001 c0160018 c0290018 ffffff00 c0174978 00000010 Call Trace: [<c01192dd>] [<c01082ad>] [<c010a51e>] [<c0160018>] [<c0174978>] [<c0115547>] [<c0105000>] [<c0115685>] [<c01158ae>] Code: 0f 0b 8b 43 08 85 c0 75 11 fb ff 73 10 ff 53 0c fa 58 8b 43 <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing Expected Results: system to boot into installer Additional info:
Please try and reproduce this with beta-3; the kernel has changed considerably.
This is fixed now at least in RC1 and RC2