Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750721AbWIOFmu (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:42:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750722AbWIOFmu (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:42:50 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.224]:61849 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750721AbWIOFmu (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:42:50 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=euuwZJbTD3qHs00/zOEtIhTHWcuMf1stCdX75ZTMBssWpXMIr/hrJxlLnfCpk+qcnsk9pSGRY4x6EjcyLmurnnmLOAFHoN4ufsnJ9F3jdYwCUYTP8BHdqLMyF9k8szgt8XXTa17Bng8y6oDb1FMhTuPQs8SN6WSE4qdcKLXqkgQ= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:42:49 -0400 From: "Bharath Ramesh" To: "Robin Lee Powell" 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) Cc: "Lee Revell" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060914191555.GJ4610@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060912223258.GM4612@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060914190548.GI4610@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <1158261249.7948.111.camel@mindpipe> <20060914191555.GJ4610@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2455 Lines: 62 Have you tried booting newer kernel post 2.6.13 with the boot option mce=bootlog and see if it goes past the current failure. Try the same with with noacpi. Bharath On 9/14/06, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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/ > - 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/