linux-kernel - Re: OFFLIST Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not?

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Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2008 09:34:10 +0100
From:	"Giangiacomo Mariotti" <gg.mariotti@...il.com>
To:	"Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@....pp.se>
Cc:	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Hidetoshi Seto" <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"Robert Hancock" <hancockr@...w.ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not?

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Giangiacomo Mariotti
<gg.mariotti@...il.com> wrote:
> Yes, that happens to me too regularly. Also now my bios completely
> freezes after having successfully done the dmi pool check at boot if I
> try to boot directly from my HD, so I have to boot from my usb dvd
> writer. At the moment I successfully booted that rescuecd in 64 bit
> mode and the kexeced into my 2.6.27.8 debian system. I still haven't
> tried to make a bootable cd with grub and see if I can also boot
> directly into my HD at boot or if not even Grub can see it. The very
> good point of using the kexec method is that, even if my bios cannot
> boot my hd directly, I can bypass it. But I still don't know if I have
> this problem too.
>
Well, I'm not exactly sure that the dmi pool check is successful.
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