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On 01/16/2015 12:53, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2015, at 7:02, Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/14/15 22:59, Allan Jude wrote:
>>> Glad to see this, thanks for doing the work Ravi. Also, I agree with jhb@, we should disable the test by default in stable/10 (i think it is off by default only for VMs currently). 
>> Please please do not disable memory tests by default.  If you do, when trying to boot from a CD/Memory Stick
>> image on a system with bad memory (which would be found by the tests) then it gets quite difficult to find this
>> problem.
>>
>> You need to have some boot level option setting experience/wizardry to set the flags during boot.
>>
>> Also this information should be added to the Hardware or Install portion of the FreeBSD Handbook.
>>
>> I have vivid memories to trying to boot up a system with bad memory.
> Or… turn it off by default and provide an option in the boot loader to turn it on manually?
> Cheers!

I was thinking the same thing.  In addition, maybe turn it on by default
for CD/memstick images.

Eric