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From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "dean gaudet" <dean@arctic.org>
Cc: "Christoph Lameter" <clameter@sgi.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: system without RAM on node0 boot fail
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:15:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440802011115r2a50d16bgdb0c5e2bc1c8d761@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0802011011080.14726@twinlark.arctic.org>

On Feb 1, 2008 10:11 AM, dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org> wrote:
> actually yeah i've seen this... in a bizarre failure situation in a system
> which physically had RAM in the boot node but it was never enumerated for
> the kernel (other nodes had RAM which was enumerated).
>
> so technically there was boot node RAM but the kernel never saw it.

BIOS sometime disabled some dimms on node that it thought that dimm
was bad and caused mce error in last boot.

YH

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-01 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-31  4:26 Yinghai Lu
2008-01-31  5:02 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-31  4:51   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31  6:09     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-31  7:06       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-31  7:22         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-31  7:39           ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 18:11     ` dean gaudet
2008-02-01 19:15       ` Yinghai Lu [this message]

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