Ken Thompson wrote: >>memtest-x86.bin is on your CD1 in the images directory and can be sent >>to floppy with a dd and the floppy can be booted and run to test memory. >> An initial 512 Mb may not show problems for quite a while, even running >>linux. I had the unpleasant experience of negotiating a warranty return >>on a 512M DDR recently, and my system would run for days then suddenly >>reset without any indication in the logs of any temperature conditions.... >> >>Civileme >> > >Civileme, >Can you outline the operation to make a memtest bootable floppy for us? >Thanks, > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > 1. Put in CD1 2. Open a terminal window and su to root or su to root on your console as the case may be 3. Supermount may be working or not. If not,
mount /mnt/cdrom 4. Insert a floppy 4. a. Optionally format the floppy with fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 (It's a necessity if you don't already have the floppy formatted) 4.b. dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/memtest-x86.bin of=/dev/fd0 When the prompt comes back, remove the CD reboot and you will be running memtest. That is, of course assuming your floppy is your first boot device or at least before the HDD or SCSI in your chain of boot devices in your BIOS. Civileme
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