I have same problem here using Asus M2N-E motherboard with AMD Atnhon 64 X2 4600+ and NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS.
Windows XP works fine, but ubuntu 6.06.1 gave me same message posted here. I did try fedora core 5, but almost same message. Booting with linux 5.0 gave me black screen. -- MP-BIOS bug on Asus Pundit1 AH2 (Kernel panic) https://launchpad.net/bugs/76989 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs