Le Lundi 2 Juin 2003 15:49, Buchan Milne a écrit : > > As I found more and more hardware problems which are describe as software > > (Mandrake) problems, it would be great to include a memory test and a > > hard disk test in Mdk9.2 CD1.
> > See http://www.memtest86.com/ Michael said it is very long...Yes, but it is very efficient. I have found some crashes of konqueror, gvim, gimp... I know now it was a hardware problem. I just found some defects between 314M and 342M. Then a boot with : Linux mem=293M is perfect ... Thanks Linux ! > But it would be nice to see memtest as a menu option in the rescue > image. Either rescue or memtest, because memtest uses as few of memory as possible. memtest86-3.0.iso has a sizeof 1.6M : greater than a floppy. Now some computers had no floppy. When the memory fails, it is often difficult to use the PC and record a CD. For all these reasons it would be great to check the memory from > BTW, having just been working on a server that lost its > bootloader, it would be nice to have lvm support in rescue mode also. > > > When a computer has only one disk, it ids not easy to umount it before > > testing. With a ramdisk system it is easier to run a disk test. > > But what disk test? Most disk tests are provided by the manufacturer, > some only work in DOS (except IBM DFT). In case of defective tracks a warning should be given. > > During a normal installation, it would be good to propose these tests by > > default or to skip them. > > I think it might be a good idea to have a message saying: > "If you have problems with installation, please boot the rescue image > and run the hardware diagnostics" Yes, good. -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/
