Description of Problem:
On a system with AMD Athlon processor and Abit KT7A v1.3 mainboard, Red Hat
Linux 7.2 will crash during the init phase, but only if athlon kernel is
used, the i686 one works just fine. I am unable to reproduce this problem
on older revisions of the KT7A. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.7-10 or 2.4.9-13; %{ARCH} = "athlon"

How Reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Red Hat Linux 7.2
2. Boot the system


Actual Results:
The kernel appears to load correctly, but a crash dump occurs after a few
init steps; it does not happen at the same point every time. The useful
sections of the trace disappear off screen before I'm able to read them
properly, but I suspect that the problem is related to memory accesses.

Expected Results:
The system boot.

Workaround:
Boot in rescue mode, install i686 kernel 
- or -
Replace the mainboard with an older revision, e.g. v1.1, of the same model

Additional Information:
I have tried different versions of the mainboard BIOS, and always get this
problem. On the older (v1.1) board it is the other way around; I never get
this kind of failure no matter what BIOS revision I use.

I suspect that this is really a mainboard issue, but I'm reporting it here
for two reasons:
1. Just to let you (i.e. Red Hat) and everyone else know that there may be
a problem with this particular mainboard, and that a workaround exists. 
2. Maybe you should upgrade the installer to address this kind of problem,
e.g. by allowing the user to select processor type.