On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:37:04 +0100 mh@mike.franken.de wrote:
On Sonntag, 15. November 2020 21:49:00 CET Felix Miata wrote:
Michael composed on 2020-11-15 21:24 (UTC+0100):
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If you mean memtest86, that doesn't exist any longer on install disks, AFAIK because of being a 16bit program it doesn't work on EFI machines. But the memtest kernel parameter should do almost the same. You can tell it, how many passes it should run for with memtest=n.
My UEFI systems include this Grub stanza:
menuentry "memtest86 8.3 EFI" { search --no-floppy --label --set=root <VOLUMELABEL> chainloader /mt83x64.efi }
I get the binary from https://www.memtest86.com/.
Do not confuse FOSS memtest86 with non-FOSS memtest86+.
Yep, but this isn't free software AFAIK. Perhaps this is the reason, why this version of memtest is also missing on the distro images.
There are details of the development history and a bit about the licensing at https://www.memtest86.com/memtest86.html TL;DR - it's free but not open source There's also memtest86+ http://memtest.org/ which is GPL and the source is available from that page. Last update this year, not abandonware AFAICT.
Thx and bye. Michael. _______________________________________________ openSUSE Support mailing list -- support@lists.opensuse.org To unsubscribe, email support-leave@lists.opensuse.org List Netiquette: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette List Archives: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/support@lists.opensuse.org