Re: memtest crashes with too much RAM
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 02:17:35PM +0200, Dieter Wirz wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Klaus Knopper
> <debian-knoppix@knopper.net> wrote:
> > Hello Andrew,
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 01:58:18PM -0400, Andrew wrote:
> >> Dear Klaus et al,
> >>
> >> This is not really a Knoppix-specific problem, but memtest is one of the
> >> most useful parts of Knoppix for me. I was delighted that the 64-bit
> >> kernel in 6.4.4 was recognizing memory in excess of 3.25 GB, but I am very
> >> disappointed that memtest is still crashing.
> >
> > I fetched memtest directly from the upstream website,
> > http://www.memtest.org/ , and did not change anything. Maybe we need a
> > different vesion for >= 4GB?
>
> on the actual Knoppix-CD KNOPPIX_V6.7.0CD-2011-08-01-EN.iso memtest
> Version is 3.5-a,
> AFAIK v3.5 supports >= 4GB.
In theory, it should. Version 3.5-a was recommended to me by a Knoppix
tester with more than 3GB of RAM at least.
> on memtest.org they claim: latest version : 4.20
> And they claim as well, that now new hardware like sandybridge, i7
> etc. is supported. I guess _this_ is the problem of Andrew's crashes.
Which does not necessarily mean it will run on older machines as well.
> @Andrew: For running memtest on state of the art machines, you might
> consider to download always the _newest_ bootable CD from memtest.org
@Andrew: If you do, please let me know which version works best on your
computers, I will upgrade memtest in the next release.
Regards
-Klaus
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