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 <mattis...@comcast.net> Subject: memtest86+ seems to do nothing. Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> 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 rebooted. > > How do I get memtest86+ working properly? > 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. A solution that I've done that has it working with both legacy boot and UEFI boot systems.. Note: You will have to do at own risks... Download https://memtest.org/download/v6.10/mt86plus_6.10_64.g rub.iso.zip unzip the file, and then open the iso with isomaster. I then go thru the iso and there are two versions of memtest. One in the legacy directory and one in efi directory. I save them with different names. 145408 Feb 4 08:19 memtest.uefi 144312 Feb 4 08:22 memtest.leg I set this on my G4L project that uses grub4dos. Found that it required memtest.leg for legacy boot, and memtest.uefi for UEFI. Picking wrong one, would give error. Did find using grub2 on Fedora 36 or 37 did seem to work using either one. Don't know why?? Copy both files to /boot directory. Rename the existing 20_memtest86+ file to another name, and remove execution flag. Then create a new one with execution flag. cat /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ # !/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. menuentry 'Memtest Legacy' { echo 'Loading memtest 6.01 for BIOS BOOT SYSTEM' linux /memtest.leg } menuentry 'Memtest UEFI' { echo 'Loading memtest 6.01 for UEFI BOOT SYSTEM' linux /memtest.uefi } Will then have to recreate the grub.cfg file using grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg This should make a grub.cfg file that list the two options for running memtest. Again. Use at own risk. > Bill. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
