Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-16 Thread Andre Robatino
I use an old F30 version that's the newest one that works on all my BIOS machines, namely memtest86+-5.01-25.fc30.x86_64.rpm. It's in the archive at https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/30/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/m/memtest86+-5.01-25.fc30.x86_64.rpm . Adjust the

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing. [SOLVED]

2023-03-16 Thread home user
On 3/15/23 9:56 AM, home user wrote: Good morning, When booting up, I select the grub menu entry "Fedora Memtest memtest86+-5.31". The screen blanks, the cursor goes to the upper left corner of the display, and blinks. That's it. I waited about 10 minutes.  Cursor still blinking in the same

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/16/23 09:22, Jeffrey Walton wrote: That's interesting. Is the presence (or absence) of /sys/firmware/uefi related to 'UEFI is supported' from dmidecode? $ sudo dmidecode | grep -i -E 'uefi|bios' Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs. SMBIOS 3.1.0 present. BIOS Information

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:48 AM Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2023-03-16 at 09:17 -0600, home user wrote: > > How do I determine the answer to Richard's first question? > [...] > "The easiest way to find out if you are running UEFI or BIOS is to look > for a folder /sys/firmware/efi. The folder

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-16 Thread home user
On 3/16/23 9:43 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 16 Mar 2023 at 9:17, home user wrote: Does your computer use UEFI to boot? If so, is the image you're using for memtest86+ correct? How do I determine the answer to Richard's first question? I can't do what Todd suggested without knowing

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-16 Thread home user
On 3/16/23 9:48 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2023-03-16 at 09:17 -0600, home user wrote: How do I determine the answer to Richard's first question? https://www.google.com/search?q=did+my+linux+pc+boot+uefi+or+bios "The easiest way to find out if you are running UEFI or BIOS is to look

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2023-03-15 10:40, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: The Fedora memtest86+-5.31 is broken and they have been informed of how to get the newer 6.10 version to work, but have done nothing. I don't think that's fair to the maintainers.  There hasn't been a memory test application (neither

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-16 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2023-03-16 at 09:17 -0600, home user wrote: > How do I determine the answer to Richard's first question? https://www.google.com/search?q=did+my+linux+pc+boot+uefi+or+bios "The easiest way to find out if you are running UEFI or BIOS is to look for a folder /sys/firmware/efi. The folder

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-16 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 16 Mar 2023 at 9:17, home user wrote: Date sent: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 09:17:17 -0600 Subject:Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing. To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: home user Send reply to: Community support

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-16 Thread home user
On 3/15/23 11:21 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 10:58 AM home user mailto:mattis...@comcast.net>> wrote: Good morning, When booting up, I select the grub menu entry "Fedora Memtest memtest86+-5.31". The screen blanks, the cursor goes to the upper left corner of

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-15 Thread home user
On 3/15/23 9:56 AM, home user wrote: Good morning, When booting up, I select the grub menu entry "Fedora Memtest memtest86+-5.31". The screen blanks, the cursor goes to the upper left corner of the display, and blinks. That's it. I waited about 10 minutes.  Cursor still blinking in the same

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-15 Thread home user
On 3/15/23 11:21 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 10:58 AM home user mailto:mattis...@comcast.net>> wrote: Good morning, When booting up, I select the grub menu entry "Fedora Memtest memtest86+-5.31". The screen blanks, the cursor goes to the upper left corner of

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 03:40:35 +1000 Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > The Fedora memtest86+-5.31 is broken and they have > been informed of how to get the newer 6.10 version to > work, but have done nothing. I don't even try to use the fedora one, I just go to the web site and download

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-15 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 15 Mar 2023 at 9:56, home user wrote: Date sent: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 09:56:58 -0600 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: home user Subject:memtest86+ seems to do nothing. Send reply to: Community support for Fedora

Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 10:58 AM home user wrote: > Good morning, > > When booting up, I select the grub menu entry > "Fedora Memtest memtest86+-5.31". > The screen blanks, the cursor goes to the upper left corner of the > display, and blinks. > That's it. > I waited about 10 minutes. Cursor

memtest86+ seems to do nothing.

2023-03-15 Thread home user
Good morning, When booting up, I select the grub menu entry "Fedora Memtest memtest86+-5.31". The screen blanks, the cursor goes to the upper left corner of the display, and blinks. That's it. I waited about 10 minutes. Cursor still blinking in the same place. Nothing else ever showed up. I