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Bug#568603: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#568603: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64: oops on startup: Kernel failure: EDAC amd64: WARNING: ECC is disabled by BIOS)



On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 10:42 +0100, Thomas Pierson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > This is not an 'oops'.  An oops will have a list of names and
> numbers.
> > None of the above indicates that the system is unstable.  However,
> lack of ECC means that hardware memory faults will not be detected.
> 
> Thanks for your explanation.
> So it is just a warning? And it is normal if a kernel message was
> raised at each startup?

They are 'just' warnings.  The kernel has no way of remembering whether
it showed the warning on a previous boot, so it will print the same
warnings every time.

Ben.

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