Ah, ok! I'll try this. At least now I know from you and ron that it isn't necessary my ram thats failing.
thx a lot! Knut. >> I used the memtest that comes with the OPENSuse 11.2 installation CD I >> also installed memtest to my grub boot menu. >> Seems like memtest doesn't find any memory at all?! But linux boots fine >> and recognized the whole memory amount. I already did some benchmarks >> and >> they finished without any problems. > > Your problem sounds very similar to the one I had. > > Memtest looks to see if you have LinuxBIOS tables, but doesn't support > tables in high memory, so it fails. Since you are using SeaBIOS, you'd > prefer that it used the BIOS tables. I modified SeaBIOS to destroy the > marker for the LinuxBIOS tables after reading them (since they are no > longer > useful.) It's a hack, but it's quick and easy. > > Suggestions: > Use a similar hack to destroy the signature so Memtest doesn't get > confused > Use a version of Memtest that already supports high tables. > > Thanks, > Myles > > > -- Knut Kujat -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
