Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a nearly new machine which is already showing signs of hardware > failure. I'd like to check its memory, for which memtest86+ seems suitable. > But I can't install it via portage because this is a UEFI machine and so its > boot partition is vfat; the install phase fails because symbolic links can't > be done. > > I downloaded an ISO image from http://www.memtest.org/#downiso and used > unetbootin to write it to the USB. It won't boot. I then tried dd but got > the same result. > > What's the recommended way to put a bootable memtest86+ image, or > equivalent, on a USB stick? >
This is different but I found this that says it works with your setup. I don't have one like yours, just googled for a possible solution. http://www.memtest86.com/technical.htm#usage If you think that will work, may want to try that memtest. If not, please ignore me. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
