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Memtest

October 10, 2003, 9:48 am

If you need to check the ram on your machine and you happen to be running gentoo:

pddb-a01 linux # emerge -p memtest86
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/memtest86-3.0-r1

and then add this to grub.conf:

title=memtest
kernel (hd0,0)/memtest86/memtest.bin

Reboot and the choose the memtest option.

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2 Comments

  1. Norman says:
    May 17, 2004 at 4:46 am

    Many thanks for this tip! Just what I’ve been searching for ;-)

    Greets
    norm

  2. Damon Matthews says:
    June 8, 2006 at 10:22 am

    most linux install disks/live CDs seem to have this now – just type memtest when you are given the prompt

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