From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020913 Description of problem: After installing kernel-2.4.18-17.7.x.athlon.rpm, the system will boot OK to runlevel 3. Starting X, or 'insmod agpgart', causes an immediate crash and system reset back to the BIOS. 2.4.18-10 works fine. ASUS A7V133, 1GHz Thunderbird, Matrox G450. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18-17.7.x.athlon.rpm 2.shutdown -r now 3.login 4.insmod agpgart Actual Results: Hard reset Additional info:
please confirm that you are not adding mem=nopentium anywhere
I am adding 'mem=nopentium', which used to work. Is this a problem?
It appears that the real fix for the infamous "athlon issue" broke mem=nopentium in some cases
Removing 'mem=nopentium' has fixed the problem. Everything's working fine now. Thanks for your help.
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