I don't know how memtest gets itself going, but this may be hard to
do. When we boot Linux we skip some steps by putting the kernel into
memory directly and fake the environment the BIOS and bootloader would
have created for it. We do this by using the uncompressed ELF image
the build process creates instead of the compressed and otherwise
prepared version you'd most likely use with grub.
If you were to boot memtest, I'm guessing you'd need to actually add
back in the steps we took out by writing a BIOS to start up with and
running whatever bootloader is needed (or none, if memtest works that
way). Also, our chipset support is very generic. memtest may attempt
to change settings in a memory controller which we don't have
implemented to cause effects we don't support.
You're welcome to give it a shot and we'll try to help you if you have
questions, but it's probably going to be a lot of work. If you do make
progress, please share it with us so we can make life easier if anyone
else tries this.
Gabe
Quoting Rathijit Sen <[email protected]>:
Hi,
We would like to run memtest with x86 FS. Can anyone tell us how to do this?
Thanks,
Rathijit & Arka
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