Re: Debian memtest package faulty? (was ... Re: hardware errors)
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 13:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > So you are saying the Debian and Ubuntu versions are buggy? Which "live
> > media" version works for you?
> >
> > Have you filed a bug?
> >
> > Does the memtest86+ package work from the grub menu, for you?
>
> I can't say if it would work from the GRUB menu now, but it didn't for
> older Debain and Ubuntu installs. No, I didn't file a bug report, but
> reported it at least to one *buntu devel mailing list. Btw. I don't know
> if memtest from Arch Linux would work, I simply never installed it to my
> Debians/*buntus and other installs anymore. There's a live media from
> memtest. I'm to lazy to search for the link. I got false positives. A
> perfect working machine got RAM errors already when starting the test,
> but when using the memtest from the memtest live media, there were no
> errors when running the test several times, each day for around a day.
> This was repeatable.
^^^ time for around a day
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