Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:45:05 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ... Message-ID: <p06230903c0c89a39b8c2@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20060628153222.I65342@fledge.watson.org> References: <E1FuYsL-000HT3-H2@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <20060626100949.G24406@fledge.watson.org> <20060626081029.L1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060626140333.M38418@fledge.watson.org> <20060626110636.I1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060628153222.I65342@fledge.watson.org>
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At 3:34 PM +0100 6/28/06, Robert Watson wrote: >On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >>>I wish I'd run the memory test earlier, but the lesson >>>is clear! >> >>Is there something that I can run *from* FreeBSD, remotely, >>to do this? > >Not that I know of. In the past, the discussion has been >held about adopting a memory tester into the boot loader, >which is almost certainly the right place to put it (before >VM kicks off and we load many megabytes of critical data >structures, etc). Some hands to make this happen would >be most welcome. It doesn't even need to be *inside* the boot loader, does it? Could it be done as an alternate-kernel that could be loaded by the boot-loader? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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