Same problem, new year 2100A machine check

[Bernd Walter]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:06:14PM -0700, Tom Ponsford wrote:
> I decided to replace a disk on the ol' 2100A. I had been running VMS on it 
> without any troubles, until a disk started giving me errors. After 
> replacing the disk, I decided to give 5.2 a go, thinking maybe some of the 
> problems of last year may have been resolved.
> 
> No such luck.
> 
> As you can see below, it's doing the machine check at almost the same point 
> as last year. In combing the archives, it seems that there were problems 
> with some cards, so I yanked out all the pci cards (there were no EISA 
> cards), still a machine check.
> 
> This machine booted and ran stable under 4-xx with a uniprocessor kernel
> 
> It seems you may have to disable the machine checks in order to get this 
> beast to boot, any pointers on where to start?
> I'd like to play with it with FBSD before going back to VMS.
> 
> Below is the console firmware pre-boot diag and then the actual boot -v 
> output and then the show config and show fru.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> eisab0: <PCI-EISA bridge> at device 2.0 on pci0
> 
> unexpected machine check:
> 
>     mces    = 0x1
>     vector  = 0x670
>     param   = 0xfffffc0000006000
>     pc      = 0xfffffc00003b48d4
>     ra      = 0xfffffc00003b4908
>     curproc = 0xfffffc0000810ee0
>         pid = 0, comm = swapper
> 
> panic: machine check
> cpuid = 0;
> Uptime: 1s
> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort

Maybe there is something wrong with the EISA configuration on your
machine.

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