On Friday 28 Apr 2017 22:33:35 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a nearly new machine which is already showing signs of hardware > failure. I'd like to check its memory, for which memtest86+ seems > suitable. But I can't install it via portage because this is a UEFI > machine and so its boot partition is vfat; the install phase fails > because symbolic links can't be done. > > I downloaded an ISO image from http://www.memtest.org/#downiso and used > unetbootin to write it to the USB. It won't boot. I then tried dd but got > the same result. > > What's the recommended way to put a bootable memtest86+ image, or > equivalent, on a USB stick?
Never mind. I dd'd the .bin file instead of the .iso and it did try to boot. Got nowhere though because the damn thing's jiggered. Sorry about the noise. -- Regards Peter
