[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 <abittner@stud.fh-heilbronn.de> 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 <erich@uruk.org> http://www.uruk.org/ "Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"