Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754581AbZAFE1k (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:27:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751667AbZAFE1c (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:27:32 -0500 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:54834 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750923AbZAFE1b (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:27:31 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:29:44 -0800 (PST) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Yinghai Lu cc: Ingo Molnar , Cyrill Gorcunov , Jiri Slaby , Andi Kleen , LKML Subject: Re: early exception error In-Reply-To: <4962AE82.6050905@kernel.org> Message-ID: References: <20090102174845.GD5372@localhost> <20090103161052.GB11093@localhost> <20090103190316.GB7367@localhost> <20090103212426.GC7367@localhost> <496001A3.1040201@gmail.com> <20090104112919.GC7632@localhost> <86802c440901051355o60bef5bai2a33ea5f7e4dc5f7@mail.gmail.com> <86802c440901051407ib7e69fey527dcce77cd2a461@mail.gmail.com> <49629FAF.6060709@kernel.org> <4962A4F0.7030201@kernel.org> <4962AE82.6050905@kernel.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1238 Lines: 39 On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: > david@lang.hm wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> >>> david@lang.hm wrote: >>>> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> this motherboard is a Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882 >>>> >>>> I just uploaded some snapshots of the bios screens >>> >>> please try to update the BIOS. the installed BIOS seems has problem... >>> >>> http://tyan.com/support_download_bios.aspx?model=S.S2882 >> >> what problems are you seeing (i.e. what did I miss seeing that would >> have pointed me in this direction without eating everyone's time) >> > > you should get 4g ram instead of 3g according to e820. > > BIOS should set ram routing correctly according to iommu (gart) and memhole etc. this seems to have solved the problem I do have another of these systems if there is any desire to do any more troubleshooting (it would be really nice if things died with a better error message for example) if not, thanks for the assistance David Lang -- 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/