Re: early exception error

[david]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >
> > > david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > this motherboard is a Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882
> > > >
> > > > I just uploaded some snapshots of the bios screens
> > >
> > > please try to update the BIOS. the installed BIOS seems has problem...
> > >
> > > http://tyan.com/support_download_bios.aspx?model=S.S2882
> >
> > what problems are you seeing (i.e. what did I miss seeing that would
> > have pointed me in this direction without eating everyone's time)
>
> you should get 4g ram instead of 3g according to e820.
>
> BIOS should set ram routing correctly according to iommu (gart) and memhole etc.

this seems to have solved the problem

I do have another of these systems if there is any desire to do any more 
troubleshooting (it would be really nice if things died with a better 
error message for example)

if not, thanks for the assistance

David Lang
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