A new memtest program included in next Fedora ?

Karl DeBisschop kdebisschop at alert.infoplease.com
Tue Jan 20 12:53:19 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 06:41, Warren Togami wrote:
> Martin Andersen wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I noticed the new program memtest86+, based on memtest86, which
>
> I can see value in having memtest86+ included in the distribution in two 
> possible ways:
> 1) Invokable from Disc1 SYSLINUX with "memtest", which runs the binary.
> 2) Install the memtest86+ RPM, and it drops the binary in a location 
> like /boot/memtest86+.bin, and adds itself to the grub menu like the 
> kernel RPMS do.  Include a simple script that will write that binary to 
> a floppy, or use mkisofs to create a bootable .ISO containing that binary.
> 
> Sane idea?

I can't really comment on sanity, but as a sysadmin for several remote
systems, the utility of the grub entry is evident. I'm for it, if the
space can be found on the images.

-- 
Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop at alert.infoplease.com>





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