Using Badram/Badmem in Fedora 6 or 7?

[Alan Cox]

> No chance that you can return the memory or the computer under consumer
> protection laws, I suppose?

If not then take that stick of RAM out, clean the contacts carefully
(with something static free or after earthing yourself) and reseat it. A
spot of corrosion or dirt can be one of the causes so its worth a check.

> Normally, you'd unpack the kernel, cd to the
> /whatever/kernel-2.6.20.x.y.banana directory, and run
> bzcat /path/to/badram-patch.bz | patch -p1

badram is obsolete

Use memmap=size$address

to mark a block as reserved

(eg  memmap=64K$2G)

to reserve the 64K at 2Gbyte

See the memmap option in kernel-parameters.txt in the kernel Documentation
directory