memory test off of a 'DISK-ON-KEY' device ... ?
Will Maier
willmaier at ml1.net
Mon Sep 12 22:17:31 PDT 2005
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:03:08AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> I'm trying to run some tests on a new server that I'm putting
> together, and would like to run some memory tests ... I found
> memtest86, but it runs on floppies, which doesn't help me, since I
> don't have a floppy drive on this thing :(
The Linuxes tend to run memtest86 from the hard drive; you can do
that on FreeBSD as well. See the following relevant messages:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-February/005799.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-February/005800.html
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