Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not?

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 06:31:40 EST


"Giangiacomo Mariotti" <gg.mariotti@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Also it might be really some problem with this particular CPU.
>>
>> -Andi
>>
> It might be interesting to notice that booting a different distro and

Does that different distro have machine checks enabled, was
mcelog installed and did you wait 5 minutes for mcelog's cronjob to run?

> then doing a kexec from that into my 2.6.27.8 make the mce log
> disappear.

Yes of course if it comes out of BIOS POST then there won't be another
one on kexec.

-Andi

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