Unstable Fedora Installation

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:49 -0400, Bruce Feist wrote:
> Edward Dekkers wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Feist wrote:
> >
> >> I've installed the AMD 64-bit version of Fedora, 2.6.13, on a new 
> >> computer with 1 gig of RAM, one PCI-connected IDE drive, and three 
> >> SATA disks.  My most recent experience with Linux was RH 8.1 or so.  
> >> Bad things are happening...
> >
> >
> > Highly likely hardware problems. A complete hardware lock (requiring a 
> > reset) is very unlikely software related.
> >
> > Do a full (14+ hours-all tests selected) memtest on the thing.
> 
> My apologies for a newbieish question, but what's memtest?  (Obviously 
> some kind of memory test, but I don't see a package for it, and man -k 
> doesn't turn anything up on it).  Google turned up memtest86 -- is that 
> what you refer to?  (I'm assuming so, and am about to create a boot disk 
> of it.)
> 

Two packages are available.  Memtest86 was the original package.
Memtest86+ is an improved version and IIRC is included in the FC4
distro.

If you do a yum install memtest86 it should also put it into grub.conf
so you can select it from the menu when booting.
Downloading it and creating a boot disk (CD or floppy) is certainly an
option.

> Bruce
>