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List:       freebsd-stable
Subject:    [OT] memtest86 (Was: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?)
From:       Mike Hunter <mhunter () ack ! Berkeley ! EDU>
Date:       2005-03-30 23:46:03
Message-ID: 20050330234603.GA18631 () ack ! Berkeley ! EDU
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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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