FC4 - Installation memory test ?
Phil Schaffner
P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org
Mon Dec 20 03:12:38 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 03:05 +0000, richard mullens wrote:
> I just built a new machine and booted up with FC3 and SuSE Professional
> 9.1 installation DVDs.
>
> I tried the memory test that is available on the SuSE installation and
> pretty quickly it found a bit that read back as zero when 1 was written.
> As I had two DIMMs installed, I swapped them around and the bad bit
> moved to the other address bank - as expected.
>
> I think that such a test function would be useful in FC4 - unless (and
> here I'm showing my ignorance) the boot sequence tests memory and marks
> bad memory as unavailable.
I'm not familiar with the SuSE memory test, but there is
isolinux/memtest on CD #1.
> Can one can tell the system about bad memory ?
Don't think so.
Phil
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