On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:06:59PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | Jamin W. Collins wrote:
| >Have you tested the new memory? Memtest86 is a great tool for doing just
| >this.
|
| I tried loading this in lilo and I got a fatal error that the kernel
| doesn't support ram disks....
I suspect your lilo config is not right. memtest86 is a program that
comes with it's own patched (and minimal) linux kernel. It simply
runs. It does not use an initrd. My grub stanza looks like this :
title memtest86
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86.bin
boot
| I suppose I could load this on a floppy eh?
| what's that command: 'dd something'...
Yep
$ dd if=/boot/memtest86.bin of=/dev/fd0
it doesn't even require a boot loader, but it can be convenient to be
able to run it straight from your hard disk.
-D
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