From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 15:03:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5168037B401 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc2-cove3-6-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com (pc2-cove3-6-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com [81.107.10.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A8D43FD7 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:03:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Received: from gamma.private.lan (gamma.private.lan [192.168.0.12]) id h7CM37xA031748; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:03:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) From: ian j hart To: Daniela Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:56:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200308102227.51564.dgw@liwest.at> <3F370299.9080700@barryp.org> <200308121551.18323.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <200308121551.18323.dgw@liwest.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308122256.09757.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange things going on with 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:03:21 -0000 On Tuesday 12 August 2003 4:51 pm, Daniela wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2003 02:42, Barry Pederson wrote: > > Daniela wrote: > > > I used sysutils/memtest from the ports, and let it run over night. > > > BTW, is there some kind of "operating system" that boots off a floppy > > > and just tests the memory? That would be useful because memtest can't > > > test all the memory. > > > What other diagnostic software could I use? > > > > memtest86, from http://memtest86.com has floppy or ISO images that boot > > and just test memory, pretty thoroughly. > > I tried it, but it fails. > When I boot from the floppy, I see just a blinking cursor, and after five > minutes or so, the machine reboots itself. > Does that mean everything's broken? > > Daniela > Try... 1) Reformating the floppy 2) Padding the data to blocksize gamma# dd if=precomp.bin of=/dev/fd0 conv=sync 164+1 records in 165+0 records out 84480 bytes transferred in 4.017066 secs (21030 bytes/sec) HTH -- ian j hart Quoth the raven, bite me! Salem Saberhagen (Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace)