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Re: MCE support

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:03:05PM +0200, Angelo Dell'Aera wrote:

 > I compiled  kernel 2.4.19 with Machine Check  Exception (MCE) support.
 > But I read
 > "For pentium machines the mce support defaults to off as the mainboard
 > support is not always present. You must activate it as a boot option."
 > 
 > Infact if  I look at  dmesg I find  it's not enabled.  I  searched for
 > this option in Documentation files but I found nothing.  
 > Anyone knows the right option?

boot with 'mce'
 
 > PS Obvioulsy I controlled and my machine supports MCE as can been seen
 > from /proc/cpuinfo

CPU does, but mainboard may not.

		Dave
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