Hello Ron,
>> Nice to here from you again. The 810lmr board is OK. The
>> only problem is, that the normal RedHat 7.2 Boot Disk images
>> don't work. There's always a kernel oops :-( So I have
>> problems installing this distribution. Installing other
>> distributions (e.g. Mandrake) is OK. I don't know why this
>> problem occurs. RedHat 7.3 Boot Disks are working until you
>> reach die mounting of rootfs ("Could not find root fs" or
>> something similiar). With RedHat 7.1 it worked.
RGM> ah, yes, redhat 7.2. The distribution kernel tries to read an MSR that
RGM> does not exist on the K7, so it gets a GPF. 7.2 is a real screwup that
RGM> way. You install it and the kernel they set up dies right away. So you
RGM> think it is a problem with your hardware, and it turns out it is a problem
RGM> with redhat.
RGM> I like Redhat, but their distributions have gotten very fragile.
But it's no kernel problem. My own kernel config, that I use
with linuxbios works. So there must be a wrong config
parameter in Redhats version. Do you know the switch, that
is responsible for this problem ?
Stefan
