Re: How to diagnose...

From: Mikael Pettersson (mikpe@csd.uu.se)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 10:42:45 EST


Robert L. Harris writes:
> was scrolling so fast I couldn't even read it. It looked like it was
> reporting ACIC errors on a CPU but couldn't quite be sure. It required
> a hard reset as it was unresponsive to c-a-d and sysreq commands.

If it says "APIC error on CPU blah" then you have a problem.
First, upgrade to something a bit more trustworthy, like 2.4.20-pre11
or RedHat's 2.4.18-17.7.x kernel. If that doesn't help, try booting
with "noapic" as parameter to the kernel.

/Mikael
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