On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:12:38PM -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote: > > Can one can tell the system about bad memory ? > > Don't think so. It depends how desperate you are. See the Documentation/boot.txt and you can reserve that bit of memory if it is one area not many. Usually people return faulty RAM but if its too late then providing you don't mind fiddling the reserve approach works. I don't think it needs a patch these days although it used to