I am trying to install the amd64 version, RC1, of 9.2. I have a Gigabyte K8VNXP motherboard with a AMD 64 3200+ CPU. Version 9.1 of Mandrake works just fine, but I am having trouble getting the installer to run on the AMD 64 version. I copied down the beginning and end of the error messages, and it seems the middle portion was just a listing of the register contents. Anyway, here is what I copied down:

unable to handle kernel paging request <1> at 000000008010dbec
RIP: [<000000008010dbec>] PML4 1f5e0067 PGD 0
iiosL 0010
CPU 0
Pid: 0,comm: swapper not tainted
RIP: 0010: [<000000008010dbec>]
RSP
------snip------
<0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
IN idle task - not syncing
Spurious 8257A interrupt: IRQ 7

-----(end of error messages....machine halts)------

I hope this is an appropriate site to report this. I will also try to report it on the Mandrake Bugzilla site. Hope someone can figure this out.....

The line that reads "iiosL 0010" should read "oops: 0010"

actanner- having the same problem but only with MSI Neo board. I've been searching for an answer with no success- but i do remember reading that shared IRQ's could cause problems with this kernel.

I was having the same problem with my board -Asus K8V Deluxe- and i couldn't figure out what the hell was going on.

Xp, Mandrake 9.0 and RH9 all installed fine AFTER changing the DDR voltage to 2.6v in the Bios.

But i still couldn't get any of the 64-bit Linux distro's (Mandrake 9.2, Suse 8.2-64) to install. Then I had to goto the Asus download page for my board and grab the latest Beta Flash for my bios. After i installed that ....Success!!!! (not that i'm tyring to rub it in...but man, it took me like 3 days to accomplish that).

All that i'm saying, is that you need to goto your mobo website and try and find the latest bios flash...even a beta if they have it. I believe and have read that the problem we have/had has to do with the memory. Just changing the votage to 2.6v in the bios might do it, but it might not. I have 1 gig of 3200 (2x512 double sided) and changing the the voltage to 2.6 and installing the beta bios flash worked for me.

I know it's not much help, but try to mess with the memory settings as this is most likely the root of problem.

thanks for the comeback dude, will try to find beta for MSI board and up voltage on mem.