Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:46:03 -0800 From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: [OT] memtest86 (Was: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?) Message-ID: <20050330234603.GA18631@ack.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <200503301527.28612.peter@wemm.org> References: <20050330222439.GU84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050330224445.GW84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1616-SnapperMsg8FB730CABE70E540@[10.178.116.227]> <200503301527.28612.peter@wemm.org>
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On Mar 30, "Peter Wemm" wrote: > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:22 pm, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > ...... Original Message ....... > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14:45 +0930 "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" > > <grog@FreeBSD.org> > > > > wrote: > > >> Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? > > > > > >Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. > > > > There is a bootable ISO version of memtest86 that you could try. > > Thats what the port does.. It produces a bootable floppy or ISO. This reminds me, I noticed that gentoo includes a memtest86 "kernel" in their install ISO. Would this be a hard feature to include in FreeBSD? Mike
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