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 probl

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 agpa

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

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, yo

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 complaint

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 MC