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From: "Giangiacomo Mariotti" <gg.mariotti@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not?
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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Giangiacomo Mariotti
<gg.mariotti@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, that happens to me too regularly. Also now my bios completely
> freezes after having successfully done the dmi pool check at boot if I
> try to boot directly from my HD, so I have to boot from my usb dvd
> writer. At the moment I successfully booted that rescuecd in 64 bit
> mode and the kexeced into my 2.6.27.8 debian system. I still haven't
> tried to make a bootable cd with grub and see if I can also boot
> directly into my HD at boot or if not even Grub can see it. The very
> good point of using the kexec method is that, even if my bios cannot
> boot my hd directly, I can bypass it. But I still don't know if I have
> this problem too.
>
Well, I'm not exactly sure that the dmi pool check is successful.