From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 31 01:37:01 2015 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 41A129C67EA for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 01:37:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1499B134A for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 01:37:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-222-143.knology.net [216.186.222.143] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t7V1aqPG019703 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 20:36:54 -0500 To: FreeBSD Questions !!!! From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Subject: [(borderline) OT]: memtest question Message-ID: <55E3AFB4.9050607@hiwaay.net> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 20:42:22 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 01:37:01 -0000 I downloaded Passmark memtest v6.0.0 some weeks ago & dd'ed it to a USB stick & used it to memtest a box I was then building, AMD 4256EE Opteron based server. Everything went AOK (IIRC) & the box is now in service. I am doing another one now (AMD A8 6500 CPU based) & the memtest seems to be stuck. I downloaded memtest86+ lastest from their site (5.0.1) & want to make another USB memtest stick out of it. I wound up going to the Passmark version back when because I could never get a bootable USB stick configured from this box (FreeBSD 9.3R-p24 now, ~p9 back then). I wound up using Passmark's disk image, dd-ing it to a USB stick under Linux, & all went well. The file I downloaded is called 'memtest86+-5.01.bin.gz' & file says it is just a compressed '.bin' file: [wam@kabini1, ~, 8:37:47pm] 407 % file Downloads/memtest86+/* Downloads/memtest86+/memtest86+-5.01.bin.gz: gzip compressed data, was "memtest86+-5.01.bin", last modified: Sat Aug 10 07:42:35 2013, from Unix Downloads/memtest86+/memtest86+-5.01.usb.installer.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract [wam@kabini1, ~, 8:37:54pm] 407 % I downloaded that installer hoping it would do the trick, but it is a '.exe' file, & I have no winders boxen on my LAN just now. How do I make a bootable USB stick from that memtest86+-5.01.bin file ? TIA & have a good one. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.