Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:15:22 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>, yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD Message-ID: <200401071515.22366.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040106224928.S9356@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> References: <E1AdqgI-0000Uw-Lo@heisenberg.zen.co.uk> <20040106224928.S9356@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
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On Wednesday 07 January 2004 14:29, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > I'm not aware of any memory test utility that runs under FreeBSD. If one > is out there, it would most certainly require some type of kld to allow it > to have direct access to random parts of system memory. I consider it is > bad mojo to run hardware tests on a machine booted in multi-user mode. In > order to get a definitive answer (and eliminate false-positives which > could show up due to kernel bugs) and save yourself a lot of time and > hassles, boot their floppy or bootable cd. I wonder if you could squish it into the loader? That would be kind of neat if you want to do a weekly memory test :) You could alter loader.conf to run the command, then have the loader alter it back just before running the memory test (once around then reboot) Hmm... :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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