Yes I was. Sorry if I misunderstood.
Gabe
Quoting Derek Hower <[email protected]>:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there might be some confusion
here. I think Rathijit is talking about the M5 memory tester and Gabe
is talking about the memtest boot program in Linux...
-Derek
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Gabriel Michael Black
<[email protected]> wrote:
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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