User friendly way to apply BadRAM patterns
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My Linux machine is having issues with faulty RAM. I ran 
Now, I have stock Ubuntu which doesn't seem to have the BadRAM patch, and I'm a bit nervous about compiling Linux from scratch. So I'm wondering if there is an easy way to disable these fault RAM addresses using existing tools in GRUB and Linux, for example using the
PCMemTest-64, and I determined the following patterns:
Now, I have stock Ubuntu which doesn't seem to have the BadRAM patch, and I'm a bit nervous about compiling Linux from scratch. So I'm wondering if there is an easy way to disable these fault RAM addresses using existing tools in GRUB and Linux, for example using the memmap kernel parameter. I'm happy to lose a bit of RAM other than the faulty addresses (in the order of kilobytes and not gigabytes ideally) to take this shortcut.
Some versions:
* Linux 5.19.0-32
* Grub 2.06
* Ubuntu 22.04
What should I do?
Asked by Migwell
(477 rep)
Mar 24, 2023, 10:38 AM
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Last activity: Mar 24, 2023, 11:36 AM