Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-24 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 22.02.2013 21:10, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: On 02/22/2013 03:04 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 22.02.2013 20:58, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: Once before (5+ years back) I had to add a kernel param and did it wrong and it was a big recovery challenge what is the challenge? there is no

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/24/2013 06:39 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 22.02.2013 21:10, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: On 02/22/2013 03:04 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 22.02.2013 20:58, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: Once before (5+ years back) I had to add a kernel param and did it wrong and it was a big recovery

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/21/2013 06:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/21/2013 3:20 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: :Hardware name: HP Compaq dc7800 Small Form Factor ... Should I worry? yes. You should update bios . hmmm, thats a 2007 vintage economy business desktop ? looks to be a December 2011 rev 1.32A

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/21/2013 12:43 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: :[Firmware Warn]: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 returns all ones! I googled Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 returns all ones! and got some related results. this bug report (on FC12) says... yes,

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/22/2013 01:38 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/21/2013 12:43 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: :[Firmware Warn]: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 returns all ones! I googled Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 returns all ones! and got some related

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread m . roth
Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 02/22/2013 01:38 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/21/2013 12:43 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: :[Firmware Warn]: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 returns all ones! I googled Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 returns all ones!

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/22/2013 02:32 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 22.02.2013 20:28, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: on a similar/identical bug with Fedora FC17, someone suggested booting with iommu=off to work around this. Where do I add this? like every other kernel param in /boot/grub/grub.conf at the end of

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/22/2013 03:04 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 22.02.2013 20:58, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: Kernel param. I really should have caught that. So I was all ready to edit grub.conf and then slapped my hand. You TEST it out first, adding the command at boot time. ARGH! one option Once

[CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am getting the following on my 'new box' for my DNS server: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:58:04 -0500 From: To: Subject: [abrt] full crash report User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 abrt_version: 2.0.8 cmdline:ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_onlo3-root_01 rd_NO_LUKS

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-21 Thread Eero Volotinen
2013/2/21 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com: I am getting the following on my 'new box' for my DNS server: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:58:04 -0500 From: To: Subject: [abrt] full crash report User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 abrt_version: 2.0.8 cmdline:ro

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/21/2013 06:13 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2013/2/21 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com: I am getting the following on my 'new box' for my DNS server: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:58:04 -0500 From: To: Subject: [abrt] full crash report User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/21/2013 3:20 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: :Hardware name: HP Compaq dc7800 Small Form Factor ... Should I worry? yes. You should update bios . hmmm, thats a 2007 vintage economy business desktop ? looks to be a December 2011 rev 1.32A BIOS, here

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/21/2013 06:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/21/2013 3:20 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: :Hardware name: HP Compaq dc7800 Small Form Factor ... Should I worry? yes. You should update bios . hmmm, thats a 2007 vintage economy business desktop ? looks to be a December 2011 rev 1.32A