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RE: [suse-amd64] Tyan S2880 244 6GB
  • From: "Santiago Flores" <santi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:32:24 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <DFEFIPHEDHBDBJKCDBOBKEDGCNAA.santi@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> I did attempt to boot with mem=4G and got the attached output. Very
> interesting.

>The MCE error points to some problem in the memory. try switching DIMMs
around
>to other slots or replace them.

>You can turn it off with mce=off (that is what 32bit kernels do by
default),
>but that would only hide the problem.

>
> I have upped my IOMMU to 2GB and am playing with APIC settings to see if I
> can get it to boot.

>That's not a good idea. You will lose memory this way with 6GB. Keep it at
128-256MB.
-Andi

OK. originally the IOMMU was at 64MB and it worked fine then. I will switch
it to 128MB and try switching DIMMs around.

Santiago


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