Hi, I just set up a new server. It has an amd64 (3000+) chip on a asus K8V-X motherboard. I installed sarge with the 2.6.8-1-386 kernel
I set up a software raid 5 and noticed that as soon as I began resync of the raid i get errors filling the dmesg log: APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) ... (... infinity of the last one) I did dmesg -n 1 to get some peace and quiet on the screen for the 2 day resync of the raid and then when i rebooted the machine and started and mounted the raid and began to exercise it ( cp -a a ton of stuff to the raid) the errors began again. I googled and saw a reference to this issue on the gentoo list with late 2.6.9 kernels and saw the solution they posted of adding the boot option "noapic". So I figured why not? So i rebooted with noapic, and indeed the APIC errors vanished. I notice a new error message in dmesg though spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. I post this here to ask if anyone knows what is going on here and can clarify the problems. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]