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Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins



Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Kent West wrote:

OT for Debian, but you folks are knowledgeable ...


Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop.
No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes
of testing.


I am no expert in this area. To understand the problem better, could you
tell me, if you are using anything like acpi and/or X?

Thanks for the response.

When you run memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD, neither Linux (the kernel) nor Debian (the OS) is involved (except perceptually perhaps, in that memtest86 is available as a Debian package). It's like dual-booting, only instead of dual-booting between something like Knoppix and Windows, you're dual-booting between Knoppix and a single application. So X and acpi parameters to the Linux kernel, etc, are irrelevant, but your suggestions demonstrate some good trouble-shooting skills on your part.

Again, thanks for the response; it's appreciated!

--
Kent



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