Weird, boot CPU (#0) not listed by the BIOS

[Ed Greshko]

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


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