RAM Mapping Script

[Kevin D. Clark]

Jim Kuzdrall writes:

>     The error occurs at address 64h.  The memory test from the SuSE 9.3 
> installation CD reports 5 memory errors at this location in 250 passes 
> (90 hours of testing).  The same testing program reports no errors on a 
> Thinkpad T60 after 138 test passes through 5 times more RAM, so it does 
> not appear to be imagining the defect.

You're a little bit between a rock and a hard place here.  From your
description, the memory location of the bad RAM is in a very low
memory location.  The Linux kernel doesn't use this memory; it leaves
this memory alone for the BIOS to do its Power On Self Test (POST).

So this memory isn't even available to be reserved; the Linux kernel
isn't even interacting with it in the first place.

Is there any way in your BIOS to perform a more extensive POST, or to
mark this memory as being bad?

Regards,

--kevin
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