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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:10 PM, James Kirin <james.kirin40@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for your reply, Roland. Unfortunately, this continues > happening after having installed the most recent version of the BIOS > available from Dell.>> I understand this is a problem in the BIOS and not the kernel, but is > there a way to have the kernel work around this bug in the BIOS and > make that memory accessible? Eg,>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/991748#991748 please do 1. boot linux with "disable_mtrr_trim" in grub.conf etc 2. after booting input: echo "base=0x100000000 size=0x20000000 type=write-back" >/proc/mtrr later you could put that line in one scripts and call it from inittab # grep mtrrfixup /etc/inittab mtrr:345:once:/root/mtrrfixup.sh YH | ||||||||||
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