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Date:      Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:46:03 -0800
From:      Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   [OT] memtest86 (Was: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?)
Message-ID:  <20050330234603.GA18631@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <200503301527.28612.peter@wemm.org>
References:  <20050330222439.GU84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050330224445.GW84137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1616-SnapperMsg8FB730CABE70E540@[10.178.116.227]> <200503301527.28612.peter@wemm.org>

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On Mar 30, "Peter Wemm" wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 March 2005 03:22 pm, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
> > ...... Original Message .......
> > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14:45 +0930 "Greg 'groggy' Lehey"
> > <grog@FreeBSD.org>
> >
> > wrote:
> > >> Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB?
> > >
> > >Heh.  Difficult when the system doesn't run.
> >
> > There is a bootable ISO version of memtest86 that you could try.
> 
> Thats what the port does.. It produces a bootable floppy or ISO.

This reminds me, I noticed that gentoo includes a memtest86 "kernel" in
their install ISO.  Would this be a hard feature to include in FreeBSD?

Mike



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