memtest.bin is some sort of memory-testing programme. I can't find documentation for it anywhere, but the programme itself would seem to be useful for discovering faulty memory modules which may be causing system hang-ups, errors, etc -- On Saturday 07 April 2001 21:02, Purple Shirt wrote:
I never came upon this before but my boot partition is very full after installing 7.1 2.4.2 kernel.
df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb3 43687396 8860464 34826932 21% / /dev/hdb1 40120 35236 4884 88% /boot user@mail:~ > ls /boot System.map-2.4.2-4GB boot.0300 map vmlinuz.suse vmlinuz_24.config boot-menu.b boot.b memtest.bin vmlinuz_24 vmlinuz_24.version.h boot-text.b chain.b os2_d.b vmlinuz_24.autoconf.h
what is the file memtest.bin for. At first yast wanted to create a boot option for it in lilo.
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