Gaspar Bakos wrote: > I am trying to boot in a quad opteron server with the FC5 supplied SMP > kernel: > 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5smp. > > I get the following message: > > Intel machine check architecture supported > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0 > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. > SMP alternatives: switching to UP code > CPU0: AMD Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 880 stepping 02 > Weird, boot CPU (#0) not listed by the BIOS > SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code > Booting processor 1/16 eip 3000 > CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=c07ae000 soft=c078e000 > > Then after ~1sec wait, the computer hard-resets itself. > > First, is there a reason why is the reported architecture being i386 > instead of x64_86? > > Second -- any ideas what is the reason for the above mentioned reboot? Q1 - What motherboard? Q2 - Is your BIOS up to date? Q3 - Is this a new install? Maybe that should have been Q1 -- Qvid me anxivs svm?