Disabling parts of memory - FC3

Tue May 3 21:47:53 UTC 2005

throck18p at netscape.net wrote:
> I have FC3 on an A22M Thinkpad with 128 and 256 MB memory
> cards.  After frequent crashes I used IBM's diagnostics to
> find some flakey pages in the 256 card.  Rather than replace
> the card I'd like to mark the failing pages as "in use" (or
> some such) at boot so that nothing else can use them.
>                                                                                 
> Can anyone point me to instructions or suggestions that'll
> help me do this?

No.  Replace the card.  It's dying.  Do NOT trust it.
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