[KLUG Members] RE: Page fault questions- Memtest86

[Tim Gray]

The newer Linux-BBC's include memtest86 as a boot option from lilo...

http://www.lnx-bbc.org/

Nice little addition to any toolkit.

--Tim

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 11:40, Bob Kanaley wrote:
> > >Syslog doesn't show any drive or swap errors (Are swap
> > errors logged to
> > >the syslog?) so I'm guessing right now that it's RAM.  The
> > RAID card isn't
> >
> > That would be my first guess.
> >
> 
> I have used Adam's old standby to check memory, Memtest86,
> http://www.memtest86.com/.
> 
> "Memtest86 is thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture
> computers. BIOS based memory tests are only a quick check and often miss
> many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86."
> 
> If you can get your hands on Memtest86 you can boot and run that from floppy
> to test your RAM without bringing SCSI RAID into the picture.
> 
> Bob
> 
> Robert V. Kanaley
> Manager Information Systems
> Agdia, Inc.
> rvk@agdia.com
> http://www.agdia.com
> 
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