Argh…. My computer’s going haywire today for no apparent reason!! At first my GNU/Linux flashing me with error kernel messages and kernel oops, then my Windows 98, Windows XP and Freebsd!
I’ve seen the case where all operating system could go haywire at the same time, just a matter to confirm it.
I inserted my home made diagnostic cd which i carried around just in-case, and boot off a memory test program from http://www.memtest86.com.The diagnostic reveal a screenful of memory error only in 17% completing the second test.
Damn, my computer got bad memory, I need to get my data’s out to print it somewhere. So I use my home-brew KrazhBoX rescue Linux system, and boot the floppy base GNU/Linux system.
To get away with “bad memory” kernel oops i use this boot parameter :
boot: rescue mem=16M
To limit the RAM usage up to 16Megabytes only (the first bad memory block position reported by memtest86 was 97MB), but heck KrazhBoX could run with less memory than that.
I’ve copied all my data out using my USB Flash Drive just in time, and print out my works in another PC. All went well today when I’ve manage to replace the bad memory stick. :)