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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>
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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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