From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Nov 13 15:01:38 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED34C3F83B for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:01:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout07.plus.net (avasout07.plus.net [84.93.230.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Bizanga Labs SMTP Client Certificate", Issuer "Bizanga Labs CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 251AB1B18 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:01:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([80.229.31.82]) by avasout07 with smtp id 7T1Z1u0051mJoLY01T1anw; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:01:35 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=TLMHcBta c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:117 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=MKtGQD3n3ToA:10 a=L24OOQBejmoA:10 a=dik7HMQjudEA:10 a=ZZnuYtJkoWoA:10 a=69EAbJreAAAA:8 a=Fqjxa5qyAAAA:8 a=VVVEYtlBL3vzwDdUOtkA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=X38pMQuCsZQA:10 a=JlwNWS_Myq4plbCuGd51:22 a=LEOSuUJgyManzQd0YIYN:22 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1c5wHk-0000WU-O4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:01:33 +0000 Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:01:32 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20161113150132.1e2f7031@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Subject: Re: Problems running memtest86+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:01:38 -0000 On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:28:30 +0000 Manish Jain wrote: > I installed memtest86+ on my FreeBSD 11 box which had been installed a > few days back with the following partition schema on a 120 GB SSD : > > ada0p1 : 200M : efi > ada0p2 : 512K : freebsd-boot > ada0p3 : 115G : freebsd-ufs > ada0p4 : (remaining ~4G) : freebsd-swap > > I see no mention of ada0p1 or ada0p2 anywhere in fstab. Is that okay ? Yes, those partitions are only used by the boot process and aren't accessed by the running system so they don't need to be mounted. [snip] > Can anyone please tell me what to do to run memtest86+ with the current > setup ? Create a bootable CD or USB flash drive from your downloaded MemTest86 image and boot from that. -- Mike Clarke