[KLUG Members] RE: Page fault questions- Memtest86

[Greg Mason]

SuSE also has a memtest86 option that gets installed, available from 
the lilo boot menu.

memtest86 took a long time even on just a stick of 256 DDR of mine that 
was in question, so 768 would take FOREVER.

On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 02:47  PM, Tim Gray wrote:

> 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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