On Saturday 15 February 2003 00:32, Shane Hickey wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 20:58, Dave Klipec wrote: > > If you are using grub: > > title = Memory Testing Utility (MemTest-86 v2.4) > > kernel = (hd0,0)/boot/memtest86/memtest.bin > > > > ... to grub.conf (note that hd0,0 should be changed to whatever > > your boot partition actually is [also note I don't use grub, but I > > believe this will work]). > > Close, but if you look in the ebuild, you'll see what you need to do > > einfo "*** memtest.bin has been installed in > /boot/memtest86." einfo "*** You may wish to update your bootloader > configs," einfo "*** by adding these lines. For grub:" > einfo "*** > title=Memtest86" > einfo "*** > root (hd0,0)" > einfo "*** > kernel /boot/memtest86/memtest.bin" > > Basically, if you drop the = (hd0,0) you should be good to go. I'm > psyched to try this out. I'd never heard of this package before.
Thanks for the help. Just for the record, I booted to memtest86 and it ran the default tests automaticly. I will have to explore the configuration options as the tests repeated after finishing the first 7 tests in about 18 minutes on my Athlon 700 with 96 megs of pc-100 RAM -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
