Re: early exception error

david
2009-01-06T04:27:40Z

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