kpanic on install >32GB of RAM

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 03:10:06PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> 
> > We've successfully installed RHEL 5u4 on it, I'll fire that up and post
> > the boot output shortly.
> > 
> > Sean
> 
> 
> Perhaps this is something as simple as a hardware failure?  HP DL980
> looks sick, but I'm not sure.  Here's the hardware logs, from the iLO on
> the box as screen scraping on the console is pointless as it's garbled
> too badly.
> 
> Bad CPU, Bad Ram or other?
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/dl980_Machcheck_exceptions.png

Hard to say -- the MCE will need to be decoded.  I'm working on a
program which can do this, though I know John Baldwin already has one
which should work.

For John -- this is for an Intel Xeon X6550, assuming Sean is using the
ProLiant DL980 G7 model AM444A and not model AM445A:

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-4222584-4231377.html

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