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)

Robin Lee Powell
2006-09-15T20:32:05Z

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:50:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Gwe, 2006-09-15 am 11:29 -0700, ysgrifennodd Robin Lee Powell:
> > > pci=conf2
> >
> > No effect without acpi=off.
> >
> > With acpi=off, it gets rather farther before apparently failing to
> > talk the 3-ware card:
>
> Thats helpful. The conf2 cycles are the wrong type for the board
> so with acpi=off pci=conf2 it doesn't see any PCI devices and
> doesn't explode. I see nothing odd in the lspci data at all
> however.
>
> You also have a lot of RAM, that shouldn't matter but it means you
> hit code paths most users don't. If you boot with mem limited to
> 1GB I assume it still blows up ?

I've tried mem=1023M, yes, and it still blows up. Just did acpi=off
mem=1023M to check.

-Robin