On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, J McKitrick wrote:

> I saw this link recently...
> 
> http://home.zonnet.nl/vanrein/badram/
> 
> Apparently, you make a floppy with the supplied image, boot with it to
> find the bad RAM addresses, and then those addresses are passed on as a
> kernel parameter once the patch is applied.  Bad addresses will be excluded
> from addressable/virtual memory from then on.
> 
> Sounds like sometheing we could use, eh?

It's not possible to find bad RAM deterministically from software..if you
have bad RAM, you need to replace it, end of story.

Kris

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