[CentOS] EDAC error

Mon Jan 28 10:46:59 UTC 2008
Peter Kjellstrom <cap at nsc.liu.se>

On Saturday 19 January 2008, Dianne Yumul wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I upgraded to CentOS 5.1 and everything went smoothly (Thanks for the
> awesome work!). But after rebooting, I get the following error:
>
> EDAC MC: Ver: 2.0.1 Nov 30 2007
> EDAC e7xxx: error reporting device not found:vendor 8086 device
> 0x2541 (broken BIOS?)
>
> I found http://edacbugs.buttersideup.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21 with
> google but no solution. Is it safe to ignore the error or remove the
> EDAC module? I read their wiki but I'm new to this and I don't want
> to break anything?

It's safe to not load EDAC at all, but also safe to leave it loaded and ignore 
the error (I'd actually call it a warning). If the functionality is very 
important to your then you might want to do as EDAC suggests and investigate 
BIOS upgrades (or just have a look at the relevant BIOS settings).

/Peter

> Please advice on what to do next?
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> dianne
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