Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932227AbWIRS7p (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:59:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932218AbWIRS7p (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:59:45 -0400 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]:28057 "EHLO chain.digitalkingdom.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932227AbWIRS7o (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:59:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:59:38 -0700 To: Andi Kleen Cc: Bharath Ramesh , 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: <20060918185938.GD4610@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: 1023 Lines: 25 On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:52:18AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > "Bharath Ramesh" writes: > > > 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. > > Did you mean mce=off? mce=bootlog will just log the leftover MCEs > from the previous boot, but that shouldn't change anything. mce=off allows some of the kernels with this problem (those that get as far as an MCE) to boot. The ones with less than 16GiB of RAM never get an MCE, though. -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/