BIOS that can skip memory test?

From: James Dabbs (jdabbs_at_tga.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:48:56 -0400

We are looking for an X86 ETX board with a BIOS that can be set to *not*
execute a memory test.

The reason is that we want to use the upper part of RAM as a nonvolatile
area to store logs. These units won't lose power, but should one crash and
reboot, we want to look in the logs and see what happened just before the
crash. We don't want it trashed between boots. These boxes run Linux, and
the kernel has a "mem=" parameter to keep it away from the nonvolatile area.
Linux seems to be able to behave accordingly, but we're having trouble with
the BIOS.

Thanks.

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