Redhat 6.1 installs on a PCI bus system with add-on processor but will halt on boot. cf. Evergreen Technology (http://www.evertech.com) Redhat 5.2 works. Redhat 6.1 halts on a dual processor motherboard with only one processor installed. Redhat 5.2 works. Intel Pentium 90 motherboard, Evergreen Technologies AcceleraPCI addon board, 500MHz Celeron.
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Install a single CPU kernel by hand on the dual board. The vendor is reporting a dual CPU system when there is single CPU which is a bit iffy. The 'noapic' boot option should also work
Newer kernels are smarter about this brokenness and act defensively. Only just noticed the old unclosed bug still around