On 15 Mar 2023 at 9:56, home user wrote:
Date sent: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 09:56:58 -0600
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From: home user <mattisonw(a)comcast.net>
Subject: memtest86+ seems to do nothing.
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Good morning,
When booting up, I select the grub menu entry
"Fedora Memtest memtest86+-5.31".
The screen blanks, the cursor goes to the upper left corner of the display, and blinks.
That's it.
I waited about 10 minutes. Cursor still blinking in the same place. Nothing else ever
showed up.
I rebooted.
How do I get memtest86+ working properly?
The Fedora memtest86+-5.31 is broken and they have
been informed of how to get the newer 6.10 version to
work, but have done nothing.
A solution that I've done that has it working with both
legacy boot and UEFI boot systems..
Note: You will have to do at own risks...
Download
https://memtest.org/download/v6.10/mt86plus_6.10_64.g
rub.iso.zip
unzip the file, and then open the iso with isomaster.
I then go thru the iso and there are two versions of
memtest. One in the legacy directory and one in efi
directory. I save them with different names.
145408 Feb 4 08:19 memtest.uefi
144312 Feb 4 08:22 memtest.leg
I set this on my G4L project that uses grub4dos. Found
that it required memtest.leg for legacy boot, and
memtest.uefi for UEFI. Picking wrong one, would give
error. Did find using grub2 on Fedora 36 or 37 did seem
to work using either one. Don't know why??
Copy both files to /boot directory.
Rename the existing 20_memtest86+ file to another
name, and remove execution flag. Then create a new
one with execution flag.
cat /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+
# !/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry 'Memtest Legacy' {
echo 'Loading memtest 6.01 for BIOS BOOT SYSTEM'
linux /memtest.leg
}
menuentry 'Memtest UEFI' {
echo 'Loading memtest 6.01 for UEFI BOOT SYSTEM'
linux /memtest.uefi
}
Will then have to recreate the grub.cfg file using
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
This should make a grub.cfg file that list the two options
for running memtest.
Again. Use at own risk.
Bill.
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