Followuing up, I removed a troublesome partition that every time was being
checked on boot, and I was able to boot ok. Does this make sense?
Alan
On 9/1/07, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have been unable to boot into my gentoo system due to a Machine Check
> Exception. This is an AMD 64 system. MCE for AMD is enabled in the kernel
> (2.6.21 gentoo-sources).
>
> I am unable to boot in to turn off MCE checking. I was able to log in by
> single user mode. The MCE happens at the end of the loading of "default"
> scripts, at least this is what I am seeing on the screen: xdm has been
> loaded.
>
> The problem is, I have been installing ubuntu on another partition, and it
> boots fine.
>
> If I have it right, I can download a gentoo live install disk and compile
> a new kernel. Is there a howto on this specific problem?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Alan Davis
>
> --
> Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for
> one non-existent."
> ---Lord Raleigh (aka John William Strutt), or else his son,
--
Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one
non-existent."
---Lord Raleigh (aka John William Strutt), or else his son,
