Re: "General Protection Fault" during Install

[Jeff Lane <jlane redhat com>]

A well known issue.

The AMD athlon systems are supported with Red Hat Linux.
However, there may be some issues with Red Hat 6.2 and the
Athlon series chips.  This revolves around the CPUID switch
that Linux uses.

at LILO type:

x86_serial_nr=1

then after booting edit /etc/lilo.conf.

in the top section add the line:

append="x86_serial_nr=1"

then save the file and exit.

then rerun lilo like this:

/sbin/lilo -v -v

then you should be able to reboot successfully.

Thank you,
Hardware

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Kuncoro Hadi Wibowo wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm a newbie to linux and I'm trying to install Redhat Linux 6.2. The
> installation run smoothly until finish. But when it's rebooted, it failed
> with error messages something like this:
>
>   CPU : AMD AMD Duron (tm) processor stepping 02
>   Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore... done
>   Disabling CPUID serial number ... General Protection
> fault: 0000
>   CPU : 0
> ....
>   Kernel panic : attempted to kill the idle task!
>   In swapper task-not syncing
>
> And also if boot using boot disk, it also failed on LILO. It only gave me
> word LI and then a bunch of 01 01 10 numbers.
> Previously I'm using Mandrake 7.1, and I'm succeed to install them
> flawlessly.
>
> My computer configuration are :
> CPU: AMD Duron
> Motherboard: ECS K7VZA
> Soundcard: on-board VIA AC97
>
>
> Kuncoro Hadi Wibowo
>

-- 
Jeffrey Lane, RHCX, EMT

Red Hat, Inc.  919-547-0012
www.redhat.com/support

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