Bad EIP Value on boot

[Rick Stevens]

Ted Potter wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> A customer shutdown his RH9 machine and brought back up. Now we get
> Code: Bad EIP value and a kernel panic
> 
> I'm getting lots of hit googling this but nothing so far that says this
> is broke so fix that.
> 
> Can anyone help shed some light ? 
> 
> (RH9 I know, I know ! but it is a production machine behind a firewall
> and used only for intranet and yes I am a lazy #$#R)
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> PS I brought the drive in to my shop and can provide more gory details
> if needed. 

Er, that smells suspiciously of bad RAM or a flakey bus.  The EIP is a
register in the CPU.  If the RAM is bad or if a card is making
intermittent connections to the PCI bus, you can get that error as the
CPU will get very, very confused.

Step 1: Open the box.
Step 2: Unplug ALL of the PCI cards and plug them back in.
Step 3: Reseat the RAM DIMMs.
Step 4: If you're courageous, reseat the CPU(s), also.
Step 5: Try booting it again.
Step 6: If it still has a problem, try one of the other kernels.
Step 7: If all's well in step 5 or 6, close the box back up.
Step 8. If you had to use step 6, you'd better find out what's wrong
	with the kernel that won't boot.
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