** Reply to message from Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 10 May 2002 10:56:10 +0200
> On 10/05 2002 02:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A buddy of mine has a rather peculiar problem: he can install RH 7.1 on > > his home system but 7.2 and 7.3 bomb out. Soltec motherboard with athlon > > CPU. Anybody have any clues? A google search only came up with some hits > > about radi controllers being a problem. > I'm not sure what you mean here. Does the installer crash, or is he unable > to boot the system after the installation is completed successfully. > > If the latter is the case, adding kernel option "noathlon" might help. I > don't know the exact details about the cause of the problem, but it has > something to do with some main boards enabling unstable (experimental) > features of the Athlon processor. We've seen this on some, but not all, of > our Abit KT7 boards (some revisions have the problem, some don't.) > > This won't happen on Red Hat 7.1 simply because there is no Athlon > optimised kernel included. I have asked him for more details, Toralf. It is crashing during the install, not after. I will be back with more info soon. jb -- Jack Bowling mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
