Re: Boot Failure

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Sun Aug 05 2001 - 20:18:53 EST


Followup to: <2295.996976445@ocs3.ocs-net>
By author: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2001 15:26:04 -0400,
> LeRoy Cressy <lcressy@telocity.com> wrote:
> >Starting with kernel 2.4.5 the system refused to boot with the following
> >messages:
> >2.4.7:
> >
> >CPU #0: Machine check exception 0x 106B60 (type 0x 9).
>
> In arch/i386/kernel/bluesmoke.c, function intel_mcheck_init, find
> if(c->x86 == 5)
> {
> and insert 'return;' after '{'. The P5 machine check handler does not
> work for all systems, reason unknown.
>

What's the CPU, specifically?

        -hpa

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