My Dell Precision Workstation 670 crashes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0. How can I prevent this from happening?
Issue
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My system always crashes after starting for a while. Here is the message:
Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 64MB of RAM. Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c:1092 mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x2de/0x309() (Not tainted) Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: Hardware name: Precision WorkStation 670 Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: Modules linked in: Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1 Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: Call Trace: Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff8106b857>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0 Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff8106b8aa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff818cca5f>] mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x2de/0x309 Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff818c7121>] setup_arch+0x4c4/0xa9e Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff814c7c23>] ? printk+0x41/0x46 Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff818c1b96>] start_kernel+0xdc/0x41f Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff818c133a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129 Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: [<ffffffff818c1438>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109 Mar 31 16:14:53 server kernel: ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- Dell Precision Workstation 670
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