[lug] Installation woes

[rjudd at mlug.missouri.edu]

I am trying to install RedHat 6.2 on a new machine that has an AMD athlon
1.2GHz cpu.  The installation goes just fine until the time comes to
reboot.  LILO loads the kernel okay, but then dies with something like the
following (the typing is poor because I'm doing this over the phone).  The
basic idea is that booting goes fine until it tries to disable the cpu id
serial number and then a general protection fault occurs.  Does anyone
have any ideas?

Thanks a lot,

Rob Judd

memory 127852k / 131008k available (1060k kernel ...
dentry hash table 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
buffer cache hash table entries 131072 (order 7 512k)
page cache hash table entries 32768 (order 5 128k)
vfs disk quotas version  init L1 icache 64k l1 d cache 64k l2 cache 256k
cpu: amd amd athlon processor stepping 04 enable
disabling cpu id serial number ... general protection fault: 0000
cpu: 0 eip: 0010: [<c02340f4>]
eflags: 00010282

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