On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 13:09:45 +0100, Patrick Welche <[email protected]> wrote:
> On my trusty -current/amd64 laptop, I built memtestplus-5.01nb1, > copied /usr/pkg/mdec/memtestplus to /, and added > menu=Boot memtest:boot memtestplus > to /boot.cfg. > > memtestplus starts on boot, I am given the option for safe mode, but come > what may, as soon as testing starts, the laptop reboots. > > Does memtestplus work for you? My experience has been that "sysutils/memtestplus" (MemTest86+ v5.01) only works if built with GCC 4.5.3 from netbsd-6/i386. Building it with GCC 4.5.3 from netbsd-6/amd64 or any later GCC of either i386 or amd64 causes it to behave as you described, or simply hang the machine. It's the only reason I keep a netbsd-6/i386 installation around--to build "sysutils/memtestplus" which I then install on all the other x86 boxen I have. -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]mylinuxisp[flyspeck]com OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645
