Re: memtest86plus v6.00

2023-05-10 Thread Jonathan Steffan
On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 5:28 PM Jonathan Steffan wrote: > * Location of shipped bins -- is there a better place now? I went with simple. > > The active discussion about BiggerESP is relevant to this decision. It's even directly asserted that RPMs should not be managing content in /boot.

Re: memtest86plus v6.00

2023-05-09 Thread Jonathan Steffan
Team, I've been working on this update for a bit due to the need to diagnose some failed hardware. You can find the latest here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137395 Hopefully we could get this update finalized. The shortlist of outstanding issues: * Secure boot doesn't work;

Re: memtest86plus v6.00

2023-05-08 Thread Neal Gompa
On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 10:59 AM Peter Lemenkov wrote: > > Sorry for reviving this old thread but memtest86+ just hit 6.20 > milestone and it looks like they restored non-UEFI boot support. Looks > like it could be done for both types of systems as easy as this > (assuming you're using grub2 for

Re: memtest86plus v6.00

2023-05-08 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Sorry for reviving this old thread but memtest86+ just hit 6.20 milestone and it looks like they restored non-UEFI boot support. Looks like it could be done for both types of systems as easy as this (assuming you're using grub2 for booting the kernel): menuentry 'memtest86+' { insmod

Re: memtest86plus v6.00

2022-12-01 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Hello, Richard! On Friday, 07 October 2022 at 14:59, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: [...] > So my question is are we planning to move to v6.00 in future? > > I did attempt to build a Fedora RPM, but it basically involves > removing large sections of the existing RPM (eg. the downstream script > we

Re: memtest86plus v6.00

2022-10-20 Thread Richard Shaw
Just to add a datapoint here I tried both using the direct UEFI image and the UEFI+GRUB image and I could only get the latter to boot on a new system I was building for my daughter. Once booted it worked great, even fully recognizing the memory. Thanks, Richard

Re: memtest86plus v6.00

2022-10-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 08:33:38AM -0700, John Reiser wrote: > >... it [memtest.efi] can be accessed by a trivial two line command. > > Please write the literal two-line command here. > It takes too long to search documentation or invent the code, > and the various imagined versions might have

Re: memtest86plus v6.00

2022-10-07 Thread John Reiser
... it [memtest.efi] can be accessed by a trivial two line command. Please write the literal two-line command here. It takes too long to search documentation or invent the code, and the various imagined versions might have bugs. ___ devel mailing

memtest86plus v6.00

2022-10-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Earlier discussion: https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg169800.html Current memtest86+ 5.x requires non-UEFI, which makes it increasingly irrelevant to modern hardware. memtest86 forked into a proprietary product some time ago. However there is hope because upstream