memtest86+ for Debian
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Three binary images are provided:
- A legacy /boot/memtest86+.bin that uses Linux zImage boot
protocol.
- An experimental multiboot /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin image
that follows the Multiboot specification.
- A /boot/memtest86+.elf, should works on most of the systems but
in same cases where don't work the bin instead works, elf also
don't support serial console.
memtest86+ is automatically registered against grub2. For
other bootloaders you'll need to do some manual setup (see
examples/grub-menu.lst for GRUB Legacy or examples/lilo.conf for LILO),
or to make a boot-floppy, and reboot on this image.
An iso image to make it easier to use is also available as
/usr/lib/memtest86+/memtest86+.iso.
There are some grub2 variable supported in /etc/default/grub:
- GRUB_DISABLE_MEMTEST: if true don't add any memtest86+ entries
- GRUB_MEMTEST_DISABLE_SERIAL: if true don't add serial entries
- GRUB_MEMTEST_ENABLE_MULTIBOOT: if true add experimental multiboot
- GRUB_MEMTEST_SERIAL_PARAMS: custom serial parameters, default is
ttyS0,115200n8
-- Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> Thu, 06 Jan 2022 16:19:43 +0100
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