On Friday 29 March 2002 12:40 pm, civileme wrote:
> 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.
I use to set the bios to boot from floppy, till I found out I
can just choose 'floppy' from the lilo menu and boot memtest86. That
lets me leave the cdrom as 1st boot device.
The rpm (memtest86-2.9-1mdk and previous versions) installs
memtest to /boot, creates a lilo entry, and runs 'lilo' to make it a
boot option. The advantage to booting memtest from a floppy rather
than HDD, is that your filesystem isn't at risk if the computer is
havin hardware problems (or if you try'n overclock it too far ;)
Memtest86 is a good first test, but cpuburn needs to be run
before the system is proven.
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