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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Michael Elsdörfer" <michael@elsdoerfer.info>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cannot boot any HIGHMEM kernel (kernel panic - not syncing)
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 13:43:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od7h9g1s.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4822DDF1.5010500@elsdoerfer.info> (Michael Elsdörfer's message of "Thu, 08 May 2008 13:03:13 +0200")

Michael Elsdörfer <michael@elsdoerfer.info> writes:
>
> Now, Machine Check Exception seems to point towards a hardware error,

It not only seems to, it does.

> but not only does the 486 kernel appear to work flawlessly, the server
> was perfectly happy running a self-compiled sarge kernel (with HIGHMEM)
> just a couple of days ago.

The non highmem kernel will simply not use most of your memory, so if 
the machine check happens accessing memory you will not see it.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-08 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-08 11:03 Cannot boot any HIGHMEM kernel (kernel panic - not syncing) Michael Elsdörfer
2008-05-08 11:43 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-05-08 11:57   ` Michael Elsdörfer
2008-05-08 18:31     ` Dan Noe
2008-05-08 19:41     ` Andi Kleen

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