System Lockup

[Peter Jones]

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:38 -0700, David Kewley wrote:

> The easiest way to run it under FC4, in my experience, is:
> 
> yum install memtest86+
> <reboot>
> <select Memtest86+ from the grub menu>
> 
> Under what circumstances is it easier to run it from the install CD?

Well, the general cases are: 

1) you're having trouble installing
2) you're having stability issues and would rather not chance it
crashing during an rpm db modification.

Note that #2 is probably the case being discussed in this thread.
-- 
        Peter