Friday, March 23, 2012 6:42 PM
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
>The only kernel boot parameter on this run was console=ttyS0,115200n8 --
>i brought up the rest of the system by hand during this fallback
>attempt.
According to HP,
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11632_ca/11632_ca.html --->
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11632_di/11632_div.html#Standard%20Features%20-%20Select%20Models
the mobo has an 865g chipset.
I know of 5 bug reports that confirm using boot parameter - processor.nocst=1
as a workaround for kernels < 2.6.38
linux-image-2.6.39 through
linux-image 3.3.0-rc6-686-pae - on both of my 865g based boxes.
Also, iirc, the bigmem kernel was swallowed by the 686-pae kernel,
which might be a reason for the instability when using 486.
>
>I've run memtest86+ on this machine and the memory shows no errors in
>that program.
>
>Let me know if there are other details i can report that would help with
>this bug report; sorry i'm not able to get the machine to a stable point
>yet to run reportbug on it directly.
best regards,
Will