[H-GEN] Problem with Linux 6.2 and AMD Duron 600 on ASUS KV7 MB

[Anthony Ison]

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> Hey Guys
> 
> May be you can help me. I have just upgraded my PC I have now got a AMD
> Duron 600 but I have now a problem with Red Hat 6.2 (and don't say that
> this is the problem). Anyway I have installed it on the D drive and have
> installed the LILO on the hda7 (the D drive as C is fat32). And have
> created a boot disk, form the installation program. The problem is that
> when I boot from the floppy disk to get access to LILO on D drive I get
> the following error message in the Kernel loading phase..
> 
> "CPU: AMD AMD Athlon..
> Enabling fast FPU....
> Disabling CPUID Serial Number... general protection fault.
> ..
> ..
> ..
> ..
> (about a screen later all of which looks ok)
> ..
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> In swapper task - no syncing
> "
> 
> It then hangs the PC with floppy disk light on. I know that 6.2 used to
> work as I had it going on the old PC. The HD is UDMA33 so it should be
> fine. Is there a safe mode I can do. Maybe pass some kernel parameters etc

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