[OT] memtest86 (Was: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?)

From: Mike Hunter (mhunter_at_ack.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: 03/31/05

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    Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:46:03 -0800
To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>

    On Mar 30, "Peter Wemm" wrote:

    > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:22 pm, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
    > > ...... Original Message .......
    > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14:45 +0930 "Greg 'groggy' Lehey"
    > > <grog@FreeBSD.org>
    > >
    > > wrote:
    > > >> Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB?
    > > >
    > > >Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run.
    > >
    > > There is a bootable ISO version of memtest86 that you could try.
    >
    > Thats what the port does.. It produces a bootable floppy or ISO.

    This reminds me, I noticed that gentoo includes a memtest86 "kernel" in
    their install ISO. Would this be a hard feature to include in FreeBSD?

    Mike
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