linux-kernel - Re: early exception error

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901052126360.27565@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:29:44 -0800 (PST)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: early exception error

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> david@...g.hm wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>>> david@...g.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
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