I used the precompiled bootable ISO from this page: http://www.memtest86.com/#download1

Was that the precompiled one (that worked fine) or did you compile it up yourself ? TIA -- Johannes Ullrich jullrich@euclidian.com contact: http://johannes.homepc.org/contact.htm

[Note to all: I work for AMD and have come across this problem, but am not any kind of official spokesman so Caveat Emptor, etc...] Andreas Bittner wrote:

Johannes B. Ullrich wrote:

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I used the precompiled bootable ISO from this page: http://www.memtest86.com/#download1

what about memtest+, at http://www.memtest.org

i dont know about the current memtest sles9 problems, but i asked suse back in suselinux 9.0 64bit days that there wasnt any memtest on their media back then, and they promised an updated one for 9.1. i dont remember any more, but if i am not mistaken the 64bit 9.1 media also had some problems with memtest, or memtest wasnt even included on those either..

just found my older postings to the list about memtest

[1] http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2004-Feb/0048.html [2] http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2004-Apr/0229.html

will suse 9.2 improve in this area?

I think the "www.memtest86.com" site now reflects the work done in the "memtest+" team at "www.memtest.org". In any case using Memtest 3.1x or the Memtest+ versions should both work fine on Athlon64 or Opteron boxes, and I do so all the time. My SuSE 9.1 install had an old version of memtest.bin with same kind of crash problems, and I just got the source, compiled in the most obvious way, then dropped the new "memtest.bin" in my /boot directory, and it worked fine. -- Erich Stefan Boleyn http://www.uruk.org/ "Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"

Kian_Chang_Low@veritasdgc.com writes:

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Hi,

I was trying to compile a version from www.memtest.org, memtest86+-1.27, and I got the following error on my SuSE 9,

gcc -E -traditional head.S -o head.s

gcc -m32...

as -o head.o head.s

head.S: Assembler messages: head.S:42: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_386_GOTPC head.S:43: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_386_GOTOFF head.S:49: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_386_GOTPC head.S:52: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_386_GOTOFF head.S:55: Error: cannot represent relocation type BFD_RELOC_386_GOTOFF ... more of the same ...

Was wondering how did you resolve this problem?

Thanks, Kian Chang.

Erich Boleyn 10/15/2004 11:04 PM

To suse-amd64@suse.com, Andreas Bittner cc

Subject Re: [suse-amd64] memtest on suse media (was: Re: [suse-amd64] memtest from sles9?)

[Note to all: I work for AMD and have come across this problem, but am not any kind of official spokesman so Caveat Emptor, etc...]

Andreas Bittner wrote:

...

Johannes B. Ullrich wrote:

...

I used the precompiled bootable ISO from this page: http://www.memtest86.com/#download1

what about memtest+, at http://www.memtest.org

i dont know about the current memtest sles9 problems, but i asked suse back in suselinux 9.0 64bit days that there wasnt any memtest on their media back then, and they promised an updated one for 9.1. i dont remember any more, but if i am not mistaken the 64bit 9.1 media also had

...

some problems with memtest, or memtest wasnt even included on those either..

just found my older postings to the list about memtest

[1] http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2004-Feb/0048.html [2] http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2004-Apr/0229.html

will suse 9.2 improve in this area?

I think the "www.memtest86.com" site now reflects the work done in the "memtest+" team at "www.memtest.org".

In any case using Memtest 3.1x or the Memtest+ versions should both work fine on Athlon64 or Opteron boxes, and I do so all the time.

My SuSE 9.1 install had an old version of memtest.bin with same kind of crash problems, and I just got the source, compiled in the most obvious way, then dropped the new "memtest.bin" in my /boot directory, and it worked fine.

-- Erich Stefan Boleyn http://www.uruk.org/ "Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"

Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126