John Summerfield wrote:
>
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I have been running RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36 kernel) on this machine for a couple o
> > f months, without problems. Yesterday, I upgraded to 6.2 (2.2.14 kernel) and
> > the machine refuses to start Linux. The installation was uneventful, and I
> > can run in rescue mode.
> >
> > During a normal boot, I get a log message about a general protection fault: 0
> > 000 while "Disabling CPUID Serial number."
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> If you still have your 2.0 kernel in place, use it.
>
> Otherwise, go to rescue mode, copy a 2.0 kernel into place (with a new name),
> update /etc/lilo.conf to suit, rerun lilo and of clean, reboot with your new
> old kerrnel.
A bit of over kill here. Add this option to lilo (at the boot prompt)
boot: linux x86_serial_nr=1
This allows the PSN to stay on on a PIII, by not running the
code to turn it off. On an Athlon, it just stops the code
to turn off PSN form running.
This can be added to lilo.conf in the append section.
It can be done at install time too , the "extra kernel parameters"
part of lilo config. I think linuxconf can help add the
append section to lilo.conf.
You can get a newer kernel (2.2.16 is OK) that doesn't have this problem
too. Then you get 686 optimizations without the extra lilo
parameters.
You definatly don't need to use a 386 kernel or a 2.0 kernel.
-Thomas
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