Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751056AbWINTP6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:15:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751058AbWINTP6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:15:58 -0400 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]:19432 "EHLO chain.digitalkingdom.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751054AbWINTP5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:15:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:15:55 -0700 To: Lee Revell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Same MCE on 4 working machines (was Re: Early boot hang on recent 2.6 kernels (> 2.6.3), on x86-64 with 16gb of RAM) Message-ID: <20060914191555.GJ4610@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20060912223258.GM4612@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060914190548.GI4610@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <1158261249.7948.111.camel@mindpipe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1158261249.7948.111.camel@mindpipe> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 From: Robin Lee Powell Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1892 Lines: 49 On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:14:08PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 12:05 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > This isn't just me. All the Debian kernels hang too. I've tried > > all of the following: > > > > Linux version 2.6.8-12-amd64-generic (buildd@bester) (gcc version > > 3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13)) #1 Mon Jul 17 01:12:05 > > UTC 2006 > > > > Linux version 2.6.8-12-amd64-k8 (buildd@bester) (gcc version 3.4.4 > > 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13)) #1 Mon Jul 17 01:39:03 UTC > > 2006 > > > > Linux version 2.6.8-12-amd64-k8-smp (buildd@bester) (gcc version 3.4.4 > > 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13)) #1 SMP Mon Jul 17 00:17:20 > > UTC 2006 > > Have you tried a *recent* 2.6 kernel like 2.6.17 or 2.6.18-rc*? > > 2.6.8 is way too old to debug. Yes; that's what my previous post was about. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/12/300 I was doing 2.6.17.11, which was kernel.org's latest stable at the time I started all this. I tried the Debian kernels just to show that it wasn't just me screwing up my kernel configs. These machines will not boot an any kernel > 2.6.3 that I have tried, and I've tried about 8 different ones at this point. I noted in the release notes for 2.6.4 that the mce code was entirely replaced; I'm suspecting that's the problem, but I have no idea how to debug it. Whether the problem is the kernel or the motherboard is also certainly open to debate. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/