[olug] Intriguing random hangs! Followup

[kaygee]

Jason,
hmmm, I guess I though the patch would come with a script or some other
mem test.  When I ran memtest86 on the bad RAM it didn't detect anything,
but maybe I'll try again.  I'll let people know if I get it working or
not. Thanks.

Keith
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jason Ferguson wrote:

> Keith,
> 
> You'll need a detailed description of what EXACT areas are bad on the 
> chip, memtest86 can supposedly do this.  Then, areas of memory to avoid 
> are passed to the kernel via an "append=" in your lilo.conf.
> 
> Im interested to see this feature put in the main kernel tree.
> 
> Jason
> 
> kaygee wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to everyone who made suggestions regarding my last post.  I went to
> > BestBuy today and picked up some memory.  I'm testing it now but my
> > preliminary findings are that the other stick of memory was indeed to
> > blame.
> > 
> > Anyway, I'm looking to still use that stick by adding the BadRAM patch to
> > a new kernel.  Does anyone have any experience with this patch and if so
> > do you have any suggestions for me?  Thanks again.
> > 
> > Keith
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