On Mon Oct 29, 2001 at 08:47:20PM -0800, Todd Lyons wrote:
> If isolinux is kept for 8.2, what's keeping you from also allowing it to
> boot memtest-x86? It would be an awesome thing to be able to tell
> users "it sounds like you've got hardware problems, boot CD 2 and select
> memtest". Compare that to "go to /images on CD1, find memtest-x86.bin,
> make a boot floppy with the instructions at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/...";
>
> I think this would be a VERY good thing (provided there's not a major
> technical showstopper with memtest-x86, which is what I'm afraid of).
SuSE 7.2 has a lilo entry that boots directly to run memtest86. Not
sure about earlier versions or 7.3, but I know this is a feature in
7.2. There is a binary in /boot (memtest.bin) that is executed, and
a lilo.conf entry:
image = /boot/memtest.bin
label = memtest86
I'm not sure if memtest is built in a special way to allow it to be
run in this way or not, but it might be more handy than using a CD to
do this. The filesize on memtest.bin is 67580 so it's pretty small.
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