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. Thx and bye. Michael.