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From: Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:13:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070903141357.2820d521@pascal.spore.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890708311808p10174631o47c80e94964cac96@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 11:08:27 +1000
"Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com> 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.  

did you know you can disable this at boot time?  Check it out:

| $ grep mce /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
|	mce             [IA-32] Machine Check Exception
|       nomce           [IA-32] Machine Check Exception  

just add 'nomce' to your kernel boot line in grub and you should be able
to boot with MCE turned of to reconfigure.  
					-- Dan
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-03 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-01  1:08 [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel Alan E. Davis
2007-09-01  2:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan E. Davis
2007-09-01  3:39   ` Tim
2007-09-01  4:08     ` Alan E. Davis
2007-09-03 19:13 ` Dan Farrell [this message]
2007-09-03 20:51   ` [gentoo-user] " Alan E. Davis
2007-09-03 22:29     ` Dan Farrell
2007-09-04  5:21       ` Alan E. Davis
2007-09-04 15:42     ` Don Jerman
2007-09-04 20:41       ` Alan E. Davis

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