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Bad memory

  • December 14th, 2009
  • Posted in Kernel Capers
  • By Mule

This little baby will tell your kernel that the first 256 Gibibytes of memory are not to be used. Run it, reboot, watch hilarity ensue: sed -i -r '/vmlinuz/s/(.*)/\1 memmap=256G$0x0000/' /boot/grub/grub.conf [ READ MORE ]

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