Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Suggestion] Memory check | Date | Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:04:18 +0200 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> marking pages fault so that it's not used IMHO is a bad idea. if memory is > at fault, report it and stop.
But this way you get at least a chance to get the machine up and running again, perhaps to launch further diagnostic/etc.
I have an example for this. One of my boxes has an unreliable memory configuration that works only if I set certain bits in the CMOS config registers, but the BIOS is braindead and won't let me set them. Now the battery has become flaky. I'd like an emergency boot with just a CMOS setup program to correct memory settings. Not under DOS because the thing hangs on a serial console.
Is there an AMI BIOS configuration tool which runs under Linux? :-)
Okay, that's broken hardware all over the place, and the mobo will probably be replaced at some future time, but if it helps me to keep it running now...
olaf
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