Re: Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

[Brian Leeper]

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Tony Wildish wrote:

> 
>  Try booting with the 'mem=xxxM' option to limit yourself to a small
> amount of RAM. If you are lucky then the problem is high enough in the
> memory that you can limit yourself to a good region and it will work.

There's also a memtest86 utility that compiles under Linux to produce a
disk you can boot your system with and test the memory--I've find some bad
memory with that before.

Compiling a kernel a bunch of times is also a good way to test if you've
got bad memory.

Brian