Re: FC4 - Installation memory test ?

[Phil Schaffner <P R Schaffner IEEE org>]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 03:05 +0000, richard mullens wrote:
> I just built a new machine and booted up with FC3 and SuSE Professional 
> 9.1 installation DVDs.
> 
> I tried the memory test that is available on the SuSE installation and 
> pretty quickly it found a bit that read back as zero when 1 was written.
> As I had two DIMMs installed, I swapped them around and the bad bit 
> moved to the other address bank - as expected.
> 
> I think that such a test function would be useful in FC4 - unless (and 
> here I'm showing my ignorance) the boot sequence tests memory and marks 
> bad memory as unavailable.

I'm not familiar with the SuSE memory test, but there is
isolinux/memtest on CD #1.

> Can one can tell the system about bad memory ?

Don't think so.

Phil