Comment 2 for bug 709649

I tested the CD in the same drive; without cleaning or even removing it. I tested it with the live CD boot option that tests the CD. It passed. I had to use the nomce kernel command line option to get even the simple test to boot. I recall though that I do NOT have to use "nomce" for the memory test option on the live CD.

Maverick continues the tradition of logging an MCE in dmesg at 300 seconds:
[ 300.040038] Machine check events logged