linux-kernel - 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)

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Date:	Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:42:49 -0400
From:	"Bharath Ramesh" <krosswindz@...il.com>
To:	"Robin Lee Powell" <rlpowell@...italkingdom.org>
Cc:	"Lee Revell" <rlrevell@...-job.com>, linux-kernel@...r.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)

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.

Bharath

On 9/14/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@...italkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:14:08PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 12:05 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > This isn't just me.  All the Debian kernels hang too.  I've tried
> > > all of the following:
> > >
> > > Linux version 2.6.8-12-amd64-generic (buildd@...ter) (gcc version
> > > 3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13)) #1 Mon Jul 17 01:12:05
> > > UTC 2006
> > >
> > > Linux version 2.6.8-12-amd64-k8 (buildd@...ter) (gcc version 3.4.4
> > > 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13)) #1 Mon Jul 17 01:39:03 UTC
> > > 2006
> > >
> > > Linux version 2.6.8-12-amd64-k8-smp (buildd@...ter) (gcc version 3.4.4
> > > 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13)) #1 SMP Mon Jul 17 00:17:20
> > > UTC 2006
> >
> > Have you tried a *recent* 2.6 kernel like 2.6.17 or 2.6.18-rc*?
> >
> > 2.6.8 is way too old to debug.
>
> Yes; that's what my previous post was about.  See
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/12/300
>
> I was doing 2.6.17.11, which was kernel.org's latest stable at the
> time I started all this.
>
> I tried the Debian kernels just to show that it wasn't just me
> screwing up my kernel configs.
>
> These machines will not boot an any kernel > 2.6.3 that I have
> tried, and I've tried about 8 different ones at this point.
>
> I noted in the release notes for 2.6.4 that the mce code was
> entirely replaced; I'm suspecting that's the problem, but I have no
> idea how to debug it.  Whether the problem is the kernel or the
> motherboard is also certainly open to debate.
>
> -Robin
>
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