-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-4808 2012-03-28 05:45:23 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : memtest86+ Product : Fedora 17 Version : 4.20 Release : 6.fc17 URL : http://www.memtest.org Summary : Stand-alone memory tester for x86 and x86-64 computers Description : Memtest86+ is a thorough stand-alone memory test for x86 and x86-64 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are only a quick check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86+. The ELF version should be used for booting from grub, and avoids the following errors: "Error 7: Loading below 1MB is not supported" "Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format" "Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory" The script '/usr/sbin/memtest-setup' can be run (as root) to add the memtest86+ entry to your GRUB boot menu. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This is an update that fixes two bugs, for deatils see the associated bugzillas. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #805542 - memtest86+ script in /etc/grub.d error after grub2 update https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805542 [ 2 ] Bug #805813 - the seventh test (random number sequence) fails at about 129 MiB https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805813 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update memtest86+' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
