Re: Broken part of ram -- 100% broken?
On 5/9/05, ABrady <nala@kc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 09 May 2005 12:44:25 -0700
> Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My brother has an old computer, a Compaq Presario, which he is running
> > windows 98 on. He's not running any game on it, and win98 is really
> > unstable on it, so I've manage to persuade him to make me install
> > debian on it. However, just to check, I ran memtest86 on it, to check
> > the ram. Result: lots of errors between 14 and 17 mb.
> > Could linux be setup to not use this area of the ram? Getting new ram
> > for this computer may not be easy, it's a compaq, so it may need
> > special compaq ram... dunno if pc100/pc133 would do...
> >
> > Regards, Alexander Toresson
>
> Well, there's this:
>
> http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
>
> The downside is, it looks like you'd have to have a running system to
> get it installed, and I don't know of any way to do that.
>
> The upside is, there is a potential alternative. You could create a live
> CD with the patch installed.
>
> You'd basically (off the top of my head--I've never tried this) need to
> install a sytem on a good machine, compile a kernel with the patch,
> create your own CD from that and distribute it. Then anyone using the CD
> would have access to the patch.
>
> The other downside is, if you've never created a live CD of your own, it
> can be a lot of work, at least the first time.
>
> There might already be such a live CD released, but I'm not aware of
> any. Here's a list of them, though, if you'd like to look through it to
> see if you can locate anything:
>
> http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
>
I actually found a mandrake live cd that seemed to have badram.
However, I want to use debian. The computer is currently quite stable,
however, programs crash occasionally. So I'll try compiling the custom
kernel as a package on another computer, then install a barebone
debian on the computer with bad ram and installing the kernel package
on it.
Regards, Alexander Toresson
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