Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-04 Thread Don Jerman
On 9/3/07, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. I have solved the problem for now, but live in fear that there is something untoward going in on my hardware. Quite possible. It can also be caused by misconfiguring kernel drivers. I recently (accidently) selected the ATI agpart

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-04 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you. I noticed that when I ran make oldconfig on a new kernel, the configs were not what I'd expected. The wrong CPU type was configured. Alan On 9/5/07, Don Jerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/3/07, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. I have solved the problem for

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 11:08:27 +1000 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

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you. I have solved the problem for now, but live in fear that there is something untoward going in on my hardware. Earlier on, this was intermittent. I also wonder whether a register was set or a cmos flag, because after I booted the Ubuntu partition, the machine did boot with no

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:51:38 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your solution is the better one, though. I did follow the instructions of the boot messages and installed an mce log translation utility, but I didn't make sense of what to do with it. The thing is, you are

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you Dan: I'll look into this. Time to tear the old box apart again. Thank you again. Alan On 9/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:51:38 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your solution is the better one, though. I did follow the