[PLUG] Running memtest86 the first time

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Thu Nov 3 03:04:52 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 18:54 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> >  What I see scrolling on the screen appear to be CPU registers: AX, BX, CX,
> > DX, etc. Does this mean it's running? When will it stop? I don't have a
> > command line at which to enter any commands as shown in the README file.
> 
>    OK. That's a bad floppy. A new one seems to be working.
> 
>    I'd like to run this from the hard drive, but when I add a stanza to
> /etc/lilo.conf, then try running /sbin/lilo, I'm told that 'memtest is not a
> regular file or a block device.' What's going on? How do I get lilo to
> recognize and use that stanza?
> 
> Rich
> 


Does it look like this?????


### LILO memtest section (memtest)
image = /boot/memtest.bin
label = memtest86

YMMV

Vram





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