Hello. I've got a problem with those rampatterns one can pass to the patched kernel at bootup. The patterns provided by memtest86 (3.x and +) didn't work for me, so i created own, which worked all right for the last two weeks. i decided to look for new ones yesterday and halted the machine for a nightly ramtest.
it showed new errors and the patterns won't let my box boot.
there are two pairs of 32MB-Edo's in and memtest's output is:
0x0165e6f0,0xfffffffc,0x0102e270,0x0102e270,0x0169e6f0,0xfffffffc,0x01114ea0,0x01114ea0,0x0111af58,0 x111af58,0x01119f58,0xfffffffc,0x0119dae8,0xf..,0x01112ea0,0xf..,0x0165e6f0,0xf..,0x0169e6f0,0xfffff ffc. since this is a fairly long one i think it too much for the kernel command line.
AFAIK the 2nd,4th and 5th are not correct patterns - that ain't no mask, but i get them from memtest86.
It wouldn't matter if i exclude a few mb's more than actually needed, but i don't know how to calculate those patterns since i'm unable to understand the description in either the manual of the patch nor the articles from the www.

Has anybody a link to good resources or knowledge of those patterns?
THX for some advice
sl mritch.
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