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theclave
01-24-2001, 07:49 AM
I finally got hold of Redhat (6.2 I think), and tried installing it. Everything seemed to be going wonderfully, until - when rebooting to run for the first time:
Disabling CPUID serial number .... general protection fault.
[various other techy gubbins]
kernal panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In swapper task - not syncing
Help!
Do a forum search on "AMD" and "serial number". This question has been brought up a few times before and the exact fix has been posted.
I'd do it, but I am headed for the shower... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif
theclave
01-24-2001, 09:38 AM
I can't seem to find the post you refer to....
anyone??
melgaard
01-24-2001, 10:12 AM
Hi!
Try looking at: http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/ThunderBird-Duron.html
... that should help you on the way.
/melgaard
theclave
01-24-2001, 11:42 AM
OK, I tried what it said in the article (linux x86_serial_nr=1) , but was faced with a different kernal panic -
unable to mount root fs, or something like that.
I am dual booting RedHat, and WinMe. I have two roughly equal partitions, RedHat on the first WinME on the second.
The Windows partition is set active - so I boot linux from a floppy.
What am I doing wrong?
Is a re-install in order?
theclave
01-24-2001, 12:50 PM
Anyone?
theclave
01-24-2001, 01:39 PM
Sorry, just trying to keep this thread near the top so I get a reply.
Evil Jeff
01-24-2001, 03:01 PM
Could it be that the boot disk is trying to mount the wrong filesystem? Or maybe that the filesystem is corrupt?
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Strike
01-24-2001, 03:41 PM
An exact error message would be helpful.
knavely
01-24-2001, 05:24 PM
I was having the exact same problem installing mandrake 7.2 . Im really a very fresh newbie and dont know any technicalitys but atleast i can tell you what happend in my experience.
I had a hard drive dedicated to it so i dont think it was a partition problem. First i used the custom server install option, and it said everything was a success yadayada and reboot into the kernel panic swap-notsyncing screen, which i noticed is the same scrren that flashes when i tried to configure x on an icorrect setting. So i tried just reinstalling and the same thing happend. I tried this a few more times adjusting the partitions sizes but still the same result. So then i found a copy of mandrake 7.1 - installed that and then used the upgrade option on the 7.2 disk, This seemed to be going well, and infact i didnt get the kernel panic but instead i got a gross resolution that it wouldnt leet me change. Finaly i installed 7.2 again but this time i just chose the recomended-easy install type and everything went well and it works with nice resolution and i just installed the packeges i needed of the disk later. Obviously i dont understand what exactly was going on but maybe these are clues that you can use.
knavely
01-24-2001, 05:27 PM
sorry actualy when i upgraded from 7.1 i still got the swap not syncing kernal panic on the new-linux bootup option from grub
It was another linux boot option that had the gross resolution.
njcajun
01-24-2001, 11:06 PM
Go look at bugzilla bug #12790.
You are running redhat 6.2, kernel 2.2.14 (I think) with something like a 700MHz AMD Thunderbird chip. there's a bug and it doesn't f'n work. You can either go through some kooky-*** steps to fix it, upgrade the kernel, or go to RH 7. It's a kernel issue.
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