> application, on a Compaq server with the hardware RAID.
> Since we have installed the server a week ago it has completly frosen twice.
> The customer is in the panic mode, and blaming us for
> recomending Linux as opposed to NT.
Perhaps they deserve NT ;)
> I have spotted a warning about IO-APIC during the boot. Can this cause the
> os to freese completely? If yes, please advice on what we can do
> to fix it. If not, please direct us as to what els can be a problem.
The IO-APIC warning is fine. The BIOS is buggy (MTRR warning) but that
is also ok
> >mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings
> >mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
> >Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
> >Adding Swap: 526300k swap-space (priority -1)
> >EXT2-fs warning (device ida0(72,6)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared
> for inode 22121
> >EXT2-fs warning (device ida0(72,5)): ext2_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file
> (44318), 0
These two are not. Somethinbg is causing corruption. Could be drives, cables,
controller, ram, or Linux..
Alan
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