FWIW, I was experiencing the same machine check exception after every bootup on my net6501, but it didn't correspond to a real hardware error as far as I could tell and I had no other symptoms or corruption. I just turned off MCE support in my kernel to quiet the message.
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 08:10:48PM -0800, Peter Neubauer wrote: > Thanks. I'll look for another power supply and try that. > > It seems that my disk corruption is related to turning on power management > settings that PowerTop suggested. I'll investigate that later. > > However, I still see the machine check exception. I notice that the > exception always references address 40000000, which is the last byte of RAM > according to the kernel reported memory map. Is it possible that the memory > map is off-by-one causing the kernel to attempt access to memory that doesn't > exist? > > > On Nov 24, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Bob Bishop wrote: > > >> Has anybody seen similar problems? Any recommendations? Should I try a > >> different kernel or distribution? > > > > What you should try first is a different power supply. > > > > http://wiki.soekris.info/I%27m_seeing_some_strange_hardware_malfunction._What_should_I_try > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
