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