FreeBSD Crashes with AMD

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 14:29, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> I'm not aware of any memory test utility that runs under FreeBSD. If one
> is out there, it would most certainly require some type of kld to allow it
> to have direct access to random parts of system memory. I consider it is
> bad mojo to run hardware tests on a machine booted in multi-user mode. In
> order to get a definitive answer (and eliminate false-positives which
> could show up due to kernel bugs) and save yourself a lot of time and
> hassles, boot their floppy or bootable cd.

I wonder if you could squish it into the loader?

That would be kind of neat if you want to do a weekly memory test :)

You could alter loader.conf to run the command, then have the loader alter it 
back just before running the memory test (once around then reboot)

Hmm...
:)

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