[luau] cursed kernel panic

[Warren Togami]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R Scott Belford" <sctinc at mac.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:55 AM
Subject: [luau] cursed kernel panic


> I have installed rhat 7.2 on an athlon based motherboard.  I expected to 
> have trouble booting after installation.  I did, but I can't solve the 
> problem.  I get a message while the kernel is booting that there is a 
> Kernel Panic and that I should try passing init= to the kernel.  I did, 
> but I didn't know what to make init equal to.  I read that I should type 
> linux noathlon at my lilo prompt.  This did not help.  I tried putting a 
> space in between the no and the athlon.  No go.  Any suggestions?
> 
> scott

Is that the dual Athlon motherboard?  AMD760MP or MPX chipset?

Also try "mem=nopentium".

What Linux distribution and version are you using?