Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:17:33 -0500 From: Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memory test off of a 'DISK-ON-KEY' device ... ? Message-ID: <20050913051733.GG30659@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20050913010116.V1170@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050913010116.V1170@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:03:08AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> I'm trying to run some tests on a new server that I'm putting
> together, and would like to run some memory tests ... I found
> memtest86, but it runs on floppies, which doesn't help me, since I
> don't have a floppy drive on this thing :(
The Linuxes tend to run memtest86 from the hard drive; you can do
that on FreeBSD as well. See the following relevant messages:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-February/005799.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-February/005800.html
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