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Motherboard: Tyan S4881 + M4881
Processors: (8) AMD Opteron 875 (Dual Core)
Ram: (32) 2GB DDR400 REG ECC Manuf.: Dataram
The first time that I booted after the gentoo install, it told me that APIC had failed on CPU0. After that I never received that error again. I've had problems with APIC and 3ware controller card support in linux before. Maybe because this system is so hardware-dense APIC is causing me problems? I've tried disabling it, but then I get a kernel panic.
Thanks.
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Stuart Haas wrote:Sounds to me like it might be a hardware/bios problem, rather than a kernel issue. I remember having a similar problem a while ago with my system (with less RAM of course).-- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
What mother board and BIOS are you running? How many CPUs? Also, what RAM are you using?
Stuart
Ryan Rice wrote:It does get past GRUB. When it goes to load the image off the drive it chokes.-- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
I cannot get past 31GB what so ever. When I load it up to 32GB or more, I get this problem, and when I drop back down to 31GB all is fine.
I have memory testing/burn-in equipment, which says all of the DIMMs' are in perfect working order.
It reboots so fast, that I'm not aware of a way to snag the dump before it reboots. Any suggestions?
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Paul de Vrieze wrote:-- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing listOn Tuesday 21 February 2006 15:48, Ryan Rice wrote:I am having a problem putting 32GB or more of RAM into my system with Gentoo. I can install Gentoo (2005.1 r1) perfectly fine even on 30GB or lower, once I get up in to the OS, if I shut down the machine and stock it up to 64GB, when the system comes back online, and goes to boot the kernel out of the loader, the system resets itself and goes back to POST. Any ideas? I've even tried to re-compile to kernel 2.6.15.4 and that gives me a panic citing an Oops! Attempted to kill init! Let me know if you'd like more detail.Does the kernel reboot itself or is it grub that chokes? Does it also have the problems with 32 GB, or with 48 GB? And what about 63 (if you can test that). You might also want to try to get at the output of the kernel before it reboots. Paul