Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 May 2013 16:12:52 -0700, walt wrote: Dale, you didn't describe the symptoms you're seeing, but maybe just seeing how I did it will help: menuentry memtest86 { search -l gentoo64unstable -s root linux ($root)/boot/memtest86/memtest boot } I don't know about memtest86, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 11 May 2013 16:12:52 -0700, walt wrote: Dale, you didn't describe the symptoms you're seeing, but maybe just seeing how I did it will help: menuentry memtest86 { search -l gentoo64unstable -s root linux ($root)/boot/memtest86/memtest boot } I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 May 2013 07:40:15 -0500, Dale wrote: I don't know about memtest86, but memtest86+ installs a menu file in /etc/grub.d, which means grub-mkconfig handles it. % cat /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 menuentry memtest86+ 4.20 { linux16

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2013 07:40:15 -0500, Dale wrote: I don't know about memtest86, but memtest86+ installs a menu file in /etc/grub.d, which means grub-mkconfig handles it. % cat /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 menuentry memtest86+ 4.20 {

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 May 2013 09:00:04 -0500, Dale wrote: ### END /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ ### There it be. I wonder if it worked all the other times I tried? If anyone else had asked that question I'd have said yes :) I do a similar thing, except the script is in /usr/local/bin, where it

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2013 09:00:04 -0500, Dale wrote: ### END /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ ### There it be. I wonder if it worked all the other times I tried? If anyone else had asked that question I'd have said yes :) Well, it is spring here so I shutdown today and did some

[gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-11 Thread walt
Dale, you didn't describe the symptoms you're seeing, but maybe just seeing how I did it will help: menuentry memtest86 { search -l gentoo64unstable -s root linux ($root)/boot/memtest86/memtest boot } Note that gentoo64unstable is the label I gave my root partition. I do that in case I