Hallo, Am 10:08 27.02.2001 +1100 hat Robert Davidson geschrieben: > >On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 11:17:00AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Hello, > >There's a kernel patch around that lets you use dodgy ram in linux >boxes somewhere.. if you could patch a kernel (on another pc) and then >transfer it to your linux box with dodgy ram and tell the kernel where >the dodgy ram is, you might be able to get all the functionality of >your linux box back..
Thats cool !!! I will search for it. >Personally I think: bad ram = asking for trouble, but if you apply the >patch I'm talking about to a kernel, not sure if they have it for 2.0 >or just 2.2, but it could be worth looking into. I use the 2.2.18 Kernel >The other thing you could do is, say you have a 64mb ram chip in your >pc, and the chip where say 35mb sits is stuffed, you could just tell >lilo (or whatever you use to boot with) to pass "mem=32M" to the kernel >so it won't use that dodgy bit of ram (just the first 32mb of good >ram). I have two modules of 256 MBytes !!! And it was a flash which destruct the memory AND Celeron. Now I can buy a new mainboard because I get no Celeron under 633 MHz :-/ >Regards, >Robert Davidson. Michelle
