Ack, you're right -- was thinking ROM, but typed CMOS. Well, makes my RAM tests pointless under LB. I don't think it's a HW RAM problem, as it tested just fine under factory BIOS.
Richard Smith wrote: >> LinuxBIOS + filo >> Errors from C0000 to EFEFC >> Walltime Cached RsvdMem MemMap Cache ECC Test >> 224M 0 LinuxBIOS on off std >> >> Obviously, memtest86 isn't skipping the cmos -- I managed to pause it just >>as it hit C000, and looked at the error result -- AA 55 was in there. It's >>reading the cmos, and failing to test it, as it should. >> >> > >That range is not CMOS. CMOS is 128 bytes and you access it via >portIO. Memtest86 never hits CMOS. Those are your legacy video bios >and other shadow area ranges. Depending on how they are enabled by >your setup code they may not be writeable. > >Doubtfull its a problem though as Linux won't use those area for RAM. > >-- >Richard A. Smith > > > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
