Re: Unexpected IO-APIC error

Here's a little more information, that I put together a while back!

http://www.rhinobox.org/linux/IOAPIC.html

Earle

Randy.Dunlap wrote:

>On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:44:15 -0400 [email protected] wrote:
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>| What does this error mean and how do I fix it?
>| 
>| Apr 14 14:12:05 NIDvntsc1 kernel: An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this
>| kernel
>| Apr 14 14:12:05 NIDvntsc1 kernel: release is less than three months old
>| please report this
>| Apr 14 14:12:05 NIDvntsc1 kernel: to [email protected]
>| 
>| We have been using the same Ghost image on all of our servers and we have
>| never run into this problem before. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Hi,
>Here's my stock reply:
>
>Several of these messages have been "fixed"
>in later versions of 2.4 and eliminated in Linux 2.6.
>They are informational only and don't affect the operations of Linux.
>
>They come from Linux having a known-valid list of IO APIC devices
>and that list not being updated very often (hence the message
>removal in Linux 2.6).
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>so you shouldn't need to fix anything.
>
>Is this a new model of server system?
>
>---
>~Randy
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