Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 12 May 2013 09:00:04 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> ### END /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ ### >> >> There it be. I wonder if it worked all the other times I tried? > If anyone else had asked that question I'd have said "yes" :) Well, it is spring here so I shutdown today and d

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 May 2013 09:00:04 -0500, Dale wrote: > ### END /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ ### > > There it be. I wonder if it worked all the other times I tried? If anyone else had asked that question I'd have said "yes" :) > > I do a similar thing, except the script is in /usr/local/bin, where it >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 12 May 2013 07:40:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> I don't know about memtest86, but memtest86+ installs a menu file >>> in /etc/grub.d, which means grub-mkconfig handles it. >>> >>> % cat /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ >>> #!/bin/sh >>> exec tail -n +3 $0 >>> >>> menuentry "me

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 May 2013 07:40:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I don't know about memtest86, but memtest86+ installs a menu file > > in /etc/grub.d, which means grub-mkconfig handles it. > > > > % cat /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ > > #!/bin/sh > > exec tail -n +3 $0 > > > > menuentry "memtest86+ 4.20" { > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 11 May 2013 16:12:52 -0700, walt wrote: > >> Dale, you didn't describe the symptoms you're seeing, but maybe >> just seeing how I did it will help: >> >> menuentry "memtest86" { >> search -l gentoo64unstable -s root >> linux ($root)/boot/memtest86/memtest >> boot >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 May 2013 16:12:52 -0700, walt wrote: > Dale, you didn't describe the symptoms you're seeing, but maybe > just seeing how I did it will help: > > menuentry "memtest86" { > search -l gentoo64unstable -s root > linux ($root)/boot/memtest86/memtest > boot > } I don't know about memtes

[gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-11 Thread walt
Dale, you didn't describe the symptoms you're seeing, but maybe just seeing how I did it will help: menuentry "memtest86" { search -l gentoo64unstable -s root linux ($root)/boot/memtest86/memtest boot } Note that gentoo64unstable is the label I gave my root partition. I do that in case I hot-