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:	Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:59:38 -0700
From:	Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@...italkingdom.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Bharath Ramesh <krosswindz@...il.com>,
	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)

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:52:18AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Bharath Ramesh" <krosswindz@...il.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Did you mean mce=off? mce=bootlog will just log the leftover MCEs
> from the previous boot, but that shouldn't change anything.

mce=off allows some of the kernels with this problem (those that get
as far as an MCE) to boot.  The ones with less than 16GiB of RAM
never get an MCE, though.

-Robin

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