kpanic on install >32GB of RAM [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Wilkinson, Alex alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au
Tue Oct 19 03:11:53 UTC 2010


    0n Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 04:33:34AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: 

    >On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 03:10:06PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
    >> 
    >> > We've successfully installed RHEL 5u4 on it, I'll fire that up and post
    >> > the boot output shortly.
    >> > 
    >> > Sean
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Perhaps this is something as simple as a hardware failure?  HP DL980
    >> looks sick, but I'm not sure.  Here's the hardware logs, from the iLO on
    >> the box as screen scraping on the console is pointless as it's garbled
    >> too badly.
    >> 
    >> Bad CPU, Bad Ram or other?
    >> 
    >> http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/dl980_Machcheck_exceptions.png
    >
    >Hard to say -- the MCE will need to be decoded.  I'm working on a
    >program which can do this, though I know John Baldwin already has one
    >which should work.

Will it work something like http://freshmeat.net/projects/mcelog/ ?

   -Alex

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