On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:11:52AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Boot memtest86 for a little while before booting the kernel? And if you > haven't already run it for a while, then that would be your first step > anyway.
Indeed, that does the trick, thanks for the suggestion. So I can be quite confident, now, that my RAM is sane and it's just that the BIOS doesn't initialize it properly. But I'd still like some way of filling the RAM when Linux starts (or perhaps in the bootloader), because letting memtest86 run after every cold reboot isn't a very satisfactory solution. Happy hacking, -- David A. Madore ([EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.madore.org/~david/ ) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/