On 16 Mar 2023 at 9:17, home user wrote: Date sent: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 09:17:17 -0600 Subject: Re: memtest86+ seems to do nothing. To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: home user <mattis...@comcast.net> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> On 3/15/23 11:21 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 10:58 AM home user <mattis...@comcast.net > > <mailto:mattis...@comcast.net>> wrote: > > > > Good morning, > > > > When booting up, I select the grub menu entry > > "Fedora Memtest memtest86+-5.31". > > The screen blanks, the cursor goes to the upper left corner of the > > display, and blinks. > > That's it. > > I waited about 10 minutes. Cursor still blinking in the same place. > > Nothing else ever showed up. > > I rebooted. > > > > How do I get memtest86+ working properly? > > > > > > Does your computer use UEFI to boot? If so, is the image you're using for > > memtest86+ correct? > > How do I determine the answer to Richard's first question? I can't do what > Todd suggested without knowing the correct answer. If you are going to create a CD or USB, don't know if it really matters. I believe the ISO files of the 6.10 version on https://memtest.org/ have both the legacy and uefi boot (Note: Isn't signed UEFI, so if secure boot is set on machine, it would need to be turned off to run) ISO files are usually designed to be burned to CDs, but there are hybrid options that allow it to be copied using dd to a usb flash, but will wipe out anything on usb, so needs a clean one. When booting on a machine setup for legacy boot, it will use legacy setup, if booted on a uefi system, it will use the efi boot directories.. I create a image file for my g4l project that uses grub4dos and grub4dos-uefi on image, so it can work on either setup. Once you create CD or USB, will have to have machine boot to device. System may allow F12 key to select, but might require going into setup... What version of Linux is on machine. Think you said machine was setup 10 years ago, but didn't say if it had been updated over the years to newer versions. > > thanks, > Bill. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
