Re: memtest crashes with too much RAM
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Klaus Knopper
<debian-knoppix@knopper.net> wrote:
>> > 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.
This might be the reason, why memtest.com (not *.org) provides a CD
with v3.5 _and_ v4.0. Maybe this might be an option for Knoppix as
well....
Dieter
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