Ken Thompson wrote: >>memtest-x86.bin is on your CD1 in the images directory and can be sent >>to floppy with a dd and the floppy can be booted and run to test memory. >> An initial 512 Mb may not show problems for quite a while, even running >>linux. I had the unpleasant experience of negotiating a warranty return >>on a 512M DDR recently, and my system would run for days then suddenly >>reset without any indication in the logs of any temperature conditions.... >> >>Civileme >> > >Civileme, >Can you outline the operation to make a memtest bootable floppy for us? >Thanks, > dd if=/boot/memtest-2.7.bin of=/dev/fd0. But you don't need to do that, just installing memtest will make an entry in lilo.conf and on a subsequent boot-up you'll have 'memtest' as an entry in the lilo's boot menu.
Guy.
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