On 14.09.2023 00:42, gene heskett wrote:
On 9/13/23 12:40, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
On 13.09.2023 19:10, Tom Browder wrote:
Here I am again seeking help. I have used memtest86 long ago when I
burned it on a CDROM disk.
I see that it's a Debian package, and I installed it. Now I see
memtest86 on my boot choice screen, but selecting memtest86 does
nothing.
That's weird.
It works for me, although I use back-ported version 6.20 of
"memtest86+" from Testing with a cosmetic patch. I like my grub menu
tidy. :)
I've now noticed you've wrote "memtest86", did you meant it to be
"memtest86+"?
memtest86 has its roots in 8086 16 bit code, and its been quite a
party for the coders to first bring it up to 32 bit, and finally to 64
bit. That last version I downloaded and burned was memtest86 V9.4
which works on my 6 core i5 as well as it did on 8086's but of course
a bit faster.
A google search should get you a link to burn to a new cd/dvd, and it
Just Works.
I know "memtest86" was before "memtest86+", but memtest86+ is a
successor [1] and up-to-date version should work for an old and modern
hardware.
This is probably the reason why "memtest86" wasn't included to Stable repos:
$ rmadison memtest86
memtest86 | 4.3.7-3 | oldoldstable | source, amd64, i386
memtest86 | 4.3.7-3 | oldstable | source
memtest86 | 4.3.7-3+b1 | oldstable | amd64, i386
$ rmadison memtest86+
memtest86+ | 5.01-3 | oldoldstable | source, amd64, i386
memtest86+ | 5.01-3.1 | oldstable | source, amd64, i386
memtest86+ | 6.10-2~bpo11+1 | bullseye-backports | source, amd64, i386
memtest86+ | 6.10-4 | stable | source, amd64, i386
memtest86+ | 6.20-3 | testing | source, amd64, i386
memtest86+ | 6.20-3 | unstable | source, amd64, i386
The other reason is that "memtest86" was sold to PassMark [2] and became
closed source since version 4.3.
Anyway, I'd consider "memtest86+" the only reliable OSS option, which
I've used successfully for many years with Legacy BIOS/UEFI and PXE.
[1] https://www.memtest.org/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memtest86
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With kindest regards, Alexander.
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