[luau] cursed kernel panic

[R. Scott Belford]

>
> > 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?
>

This is the mpx chipset on the epox 8kha+ mboard with an Athlon XP 1700 and
Redhat's 7.2 distro.  I have just brought it in to the office, and I am
going to hook it up and try the mem=nopentium option.