From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755289AbZBPVla (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:41:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752156AbZBPVlV (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:41:21 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:41988 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751404AbZBPVlV (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:41:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:41:29 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Bob Wilkinson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] Multiple BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request Message-ID: <20090216134129.6f9e7458@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090216211012.GA31416@fourtheye.org> References: <20090216211012.GA31416@fourtheye.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:10:12 +0000 Bob Wilkinson wrote: > Hello > > I have been having many problems with the stability of one of > my machines. It does have a lot of attached peripherals, and > regularly crashes. It does not always boot. I have attached as much > information as I know to. > > There are multiple > > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request you're using a rather old kernel; it might be better to report such an issue to your distribution instead. however, one thing to try is to put "mem=750M" on the kernel command line; if your bios lies to you about how much memory you have that would work around it. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org