[syslinux] PXE and Hard Drive Test Programms

Erwan Velu erwan at seanodes.com
Wed Aug 16 06:02:50 PDT 2006


Morbid Angel wrote:

> Erwan Velu schrieb:
>
>> I've been already saw that on some PCs. This is usually related to
>> - a bad memory (please check this memtest that everything is ok)
>
> memtest doesnt work to (86 and 86+)
> I have tried it with
> KERNEL memdisk
> APPEND initrd=memtest86.bin
>
> but it repeats all over the time 8000 on screen...
>
> mfg

Please rename memtest86.bin to memtest86.
The .bin extension must not be used.
Memtest doesn't needs memdisk to run.

Please try with this one:
http://www.memtest.org/download/1.65/memtest86+-1.65.bin.gz

A good configuration is:

label memtest
KERNEL memtest86++-1.65





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