Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932127AbWIORrH (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:47:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932124AbWIORrH (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:47:07 -0400 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]:32132 "EHLO chain.digitalkingdom.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932127AbWIORrF (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:47:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:47:01 -0700 To: Bharath Ramesh Cc: Lee Revell , 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: <20060915174701.GN4610@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20060912223258.GM4612@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060914190548.GI4610@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <1158261249.7948.111.camel@mindpipe> <20060914191555.GJ4610@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 3309 Lines: 85 I didn't know about mce=bootlog. Neat. It doesn't change anything, though. I've tried noacpi and many variants thereon; no change. The most severe set of options I have record of trying is: nosmp noapic mem=512M ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off desktop showopts but there were lots of others. mce=nobootlog doesn't help either, for the record. If mce=bootlog actually sticks logs somewhere I should retrieve and show to you, please tell me; ./Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt doesn't say anything about it. -Robin On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 01:42:49AM -0400, Bharath Ramesh wrote: > 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/ > > -- 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/