A new memtest program included in next Fedora ?

Konstantin Riabitsev icon at linux.duke.edu
Tue Jan 20 13:40:18 UTC 2004


Warren Togami wrote:
> I can see value in having memtest86+ included in the distribution in two 
> possible ways:
> 1) Invokable from Disc1 SYSLINUX with "memtest", which runs the binary.
> 2) Install the memtest86+ RPM, and it drops the binary in a location 
> like /boot/memtest86+.bin, and adds itself to the grub menu like the 
> kernel RPMS do.  Include a simple script that will write that binary to 
> a floppy, or use mkisofs to create a bootable .ISO containing that binary.

I have one that does just that for Linux at DUKE. I'll see if I can 
adapt it to memtest86+ today.

Cheers,
-- 
Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
Duke Physics Systems Admin, RHCE
www.duke.edu/~icon/pubkey.asc





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