This is an etch server machine with 3GB of RAM, and I seem unable to boot into any kernel that has HIGHMEM enabled, i.e.:
zoidberg:/# dmesg | head Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 896MB LOWMEM available. Specifically, the only kernel image that seems to work is linux-image-2.6.18-6-486 (or the OpenVZ version fzakernel-2.6.18-486) Everything else seems to fail with: Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000007 Bank 3: b40000000000083b at 000000fdfc000cfc Kernel panic - not syncing: Unable to continue Specifically, I tried at least the following images from the Debian and OpenVZ repositories: config-2.6.18-openvz-k7 linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fzakernel-2.6.18-686 fzakernel-2.6.18-686-bigmem Now, Machine Check Exception seems to point towards a hardware error, but note only does the 486 kernel appear to work flawlessly, the server was perfectly happy running a self-compiled sarge kernel (with HIGHMEM) just a couple of days ago. Here's the processor info: zoidberg:/boot# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 5 model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 1794.546 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow ts fid vid ttp bogomips : 3591.45 Does anybody know what the issue might be? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
