Re: Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/31/20 4:03 PM, Brandon Nielsen wrote: On 3/31/20 3:53 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: gcc version? I don't think an application written mostly in assembly would change that significantly in size with different compiler versions. Anyway, it looks like it broke when gcc-compat was dropped: h

Re: Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Brandon Nielsen
On 3/31/20 3:53 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: gcc version? I don't think an application written mostly in assembly would change that significantly in size with different compiler versions. Anyway, it looks like it broke when gcc-compat was dropped: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1

Re: Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 9:24 AM Kamil Paral wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:06 PM Brandon Nielsen wrote: >> >> Recently I've had cause to run memtest on some relatively modern systems >> (Haswell, Haswell refresh, and Kaby Lake R). On all three systems the &g

Re: Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Brandon Nielsen
. Something changed recently (F31) for the worse. Interestingly, memtest always reports the same version (5.01) so I wonder what affects this. I can confirm F30 Workstation Live works. I don't see any obvious difference in how memtest86+ is invoked. The binary itself is obviously different ho

Re: Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
Brandon Nielsen composed on 2020-03-31 09:05 (UTC-0500): > Recently I've had cause to run memtest on some relatively modern systems > (Haswell, Haswell refresh, and Kaby Lake R). On all three systems the > memtest86+ provided with the Fedora Workstation Live media failed. > O

Re: Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Kamil Paral
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:06 PM Brandon Nielsen wrote: > Recently I've had cause to run memtest on some relatively modern systems > (Haswell, Haswell refresh, and Kaby Lake R). On all three systems the > memtest86+ provided with the Fedora Workstation Live media failed. > >

Re: Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Richard Shaw
My experience is that you need to change the bios to legacy and then it works fine. Thanks Richard ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://d

Memtest86+

2020-03-31 Thread Brandon Nielsen
Recently I've had cause to run memtest on some relatively modern systems (Haswell, Haswell refresh, and Kaby Lake R). On all three systems the memtest86+ provided with the Fedora Workstation Live media failed. On the Haswell and Haswell refresh machines it froze shortly after startin

memtest86+ in Fedora 17

2012-04-17 Thread Zdenek Pytela
memtest86+ package was shipped without proper installation script adjusted for grub2 until memtest86+-4.20-2. Now there is proper memtest-setup, but it is not run by default as postinstall script. People used to do their own setting at 23_memtest according to numerous web guides. Paths changed in

Re: QA:Testcase Memtest86

2010-08-13 Thread Kamil Paral
- "He Rui" wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 04:42 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > > - "He Rui" wrote: > > > I don't intend to cover all the memtest features, but think we > should > > > at > > > least check if there's a test result shown to reflect the test, > > > that's > > > the main goal t

Re: QA:Testcase Memtest86

2010-08-12 Thread He Rui
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 04:42 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > - "He Rui" wrote: > > I don't intend to cover all the memtest features, but think we should > > at > > least check if there's a test result shown to reflect the test, > > that's > > the main goal to run a memtest. > > > > Ok, I have wa

Re: QA:Testcase Memtest86

2010-08-12 Thread Kamil Paral
- "He Rui" wrote: > I don't intend to cover all the memtest features, but think we should > at > least check if there's a test result shown to reflect the test, > that's > the main goal to run a memtest. > Ok, I have waited for the whole test cycle to complete (10 minutes on my machine). It

Re: QA:Testcase Memtest86

2010-08-12 Thread He Rui
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 03:18 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > - "He Rui" wrote: > > > > > > > 2. Test report is shown once a test is completed. > > > > > > The test is never completed, it runs infinitely over and over > > again. > > > It takes quite some time too. > > > Also, no report is ever s

Re: QA:Testcase Memtest86

2010-08-12 Thread Kamil Paral
- "He Rui" wrote: > > > > > 2. Test report is shown once a test is completed. > > > > The test is never completed, it runs infinitely over and over > again. > > It takes quite some time too. > > Also, no report is ever shown, just statistics are continuously > updated > > in the lower part

Re: QA:Testcase Memtest86

2010-08-12 Thread He Rui
Hi Kamil, On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 06:27 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > I want to discuss the QA:Testcase Memtest86 [1] from our F14 installation > matrix. > > The test case is a little weird to me and took me quite some time to > understand what to test and when to report outcome. >

Re: QA:Testcase Memtest86

2010-08-11 Thread James Laska
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 06:27 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > I want to discuss the QA:Testcase Memtest86 [1] from our F14 installation > matrix. > > The test case is a little weird to me and took me quite some time to > understand what to test and when to report outcome. > > &

QA:Testcase Memtest86

2010-08-11 Thread Kamil Paral
I want to discuss the QA:Testcase Memtest86 [1] from our F14 installation matrix. The test case is a little weird to me and took me quite some time to understand what to test and when to report outcome. > How to test: > 1. Boot the installer using any available means We don't w