Re: Kernel Panic with Sarge

["Edward J. Shornock" <debian-ml@crazeecanuck.homelinux.net>]

michael bailey wrote:

[..]
> kernel: CPU 0 : Machine Check Exception:
> 0000000000000004
>
> kernel: Bank 4 : b200000000040151
>
> kernel: Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt
>
>  After the reboot both the green power 
> light and the orange disk light on the front of the PC
> are steady (i.e. not flickering).
>
>  Has anyone any suggestions please as to the possible
>  cause of this ?
>
>  Debian Sarge is being run on a 650 Mhz Pentium III 
>  machine.
>
>  Screen freezes have occurred before with this same
>  setup (as previously reported to the Debian Users 
>  Group) but without the above messages.

I suggest possibly clearing the CMOS (with the jumper or battery), and 
maybe running mprime[1] to check for CPU problems.

HTH,

Ed

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[1] http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/projects/mprime.html