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

[Frank Brand]

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Anthony Ison wrote:

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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..

What you are encountering is not totally unknown. It has been reported several
times before.

I believe (although I have not confirmed myself) that Red Hat 6.1 works Ok.

There is some discussion that the problem relates to a false cache size return
from the Duron chip. Returning a cache size of 1K instead of 64k. I am told it
was a bug in the first Duron production runs.

However it could be that the kernel does not support Durons adequately yet, not
sure.

Try RH 6.1, errors like this are reported using RH 6.2 and Mandrake 7.1

I believe that there is something on the AMD site about the L2 cache reporting
bug.

Here is a statement from Alan Cox (Linux kernel GURU)

"The relevant errata fixes are in current 2.2.17pre. I would like to know if
they work as I don't have a chip with
 this bug to check. Its actually basically harmless. The cache is really there
and really used."

At this stage I do not know of a fix but I have not fiully researched it.

Regards

Frank Brand


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