This would have been me. The kernel recognized the AMD cpu
just fine but then tried to disable the PIII serial number.
Go figure!
So I tried Redhat 7 to see if it would work better. Well,
the good news is that it now boots fine. The bad news is that
my X display is a mess! I asked Marc Evans (one of XFree86
team members) about this and learned that the X servers shipped
with RH7 are Alpha release code with known bugs. A new release
of X should be available at the end of this week that fixes
the problem. Sigh.
Dan Coutu
> What is most irksome in this case is that sometime in the
> last several weeks I *know* I saw somebody talking about
> a problem that was either exactly this one, or darned
> close, but I can't remember where I saw it. (maybe it
> was the linux-kernel list) I think it had something
> to do with executing some Pentium-specific instruction
> before the kernel had properly detected that it was
> running on an AMD chip. Oh, well - I promise to pass
> along any info of use, and I still like my Thunderbird.
>
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