On 13/06/13 16:47, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
recently my netbook got the habit of freezing sporadically. [...]
[...]
I ran a memtest a few months back and stopped it after 8 successful
passes. I might try that again as soon as I find out how¹, but I'd
think that a corrupt memory would cause something different than a full
freeze.
It usually manifests in segfaults that seem to come at random. But it's
still worth a shot. It's very easy. Emerge "sys-apps/memtest86+" and
add this grub entry:
title=Memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin
(Adapt the "hd0,0" of course to be the same disk as the one you're using
to boot your kernel.)
That's it. Now your boot menu will include a "Memtest86+" option. This
is for grub 1 though. If you migrated to grub 2 by now, then I don't
know how that boot entry would look like. I suspect it will be some
300-line monstrosity or something :-|
