Athlon64 & Suse9 for AMD64 edition

Hi there...
I encounter Serious Problemstrying to install Suse9 for AMD64.
Environment: MSI K8T Neo, Athlon64 3000+, Adaptec 29160, 1Gig Corsair PC400 Ram, Nvidia Gforce 4600.
I encounter a Kernel Panic on trying to load the kernel similar to this :
Code:Bad RIP value
RIP [000000008010ddbe] RSP [ffffffff804ddfc8]
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In idle task-no syncing
Unable to handle paging request
A friend told me i need a bios update . well i run on 1.2 thats the newest... any suggestions ?
THX in advance

We had the same problem and figured out that everything works fine when using the kernel paramter numa=off. After several hours of work we managed to get the system running with NUMA support by replacing the RAM modules.
Unfortunately, the user guide doesn't say anything about the relationship between the memory banks and the processors. In fact, it seems like that the 6 banks belong to CPU 1 while the 4 banks belong to CPU 2. When using NUMA, it is important that every CPU has its own memory. Thus, we distributed our 4 memory modules to both CPUs and everything worked fine.
I hope this helped you.
Bye,
Arthur.

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