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memtest86+: new package Memtest86+ is a bootable standalone memory test program. Please note that this is the forked memtest86+ program and not the original memtest86 which has different licensing. Buildroot does not support packages with a '+' sign in their name. Memtest86+ is a utility designed to test whether your memory is in working order. It repeatedly writes an enormous amount of different patterns to all memory locations and reads them back again and verifies whether the result of the read is the same as what was written to memory. Memtest86+ will only work on 32-bit or 64-bit x86 targets. It boots as an i486 program and autodetects hardware. [Peter: tweak help text as suggested by Thomas] Signed-off-by Stephen M. Kenton <skenton@ou.edu> Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-02-01 01:00:01 +01:00
config BR2_PACKAGE_MEMTEST86
bool "memtest86"
depends on BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64
help
Memtest86+ is a bootable standalone memory test program.
Buildroot does not support packages with a '+' sign in their
name, which explains why it is named memtest86 and not
memtest86+.
Memtest86+ is a utility designed to test whether your memory
is in working order. It repeatedly writes an enormous amount
of different patterns to all memory locations and reads them
back again and verifies whether the result of the read is the
same as what was written to memory.
Memtest86+ will only work on 32-bit or 64-bit x86 targets.
It boots as an i486 program and autodetects hardware. It can
package/*/Config.in: fix help text check-package warnings This commit fixes the warnings reported by check-package on the help text of all package Config.in files, related to the formatting of the help text: should start with a tab, then 2 spaces, then at most 62 characters. The vast majority of warnings fixed were caused by too long lines. A few warnings were related to spaces being used instead of a tab to indent the help text. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-12-18 09:21:05 +01:00
be added to the grub2 boot menu by adding the following
lines to the bottom of /boot/grub/grub.cfg - note the use of
linux16.
memtest86+: new package Memtest86+ is a bootable standalone memory test program. Please note that this is the forked memtest86+ program and not the original memtest86 which has different licensing. Buildroot does not support packages with a '+' sign in their name. Memtest86+ is a utility designed to test whether your memory is in working order. It repeatedly writes an enormous amount of different patterns to all memory locations and reads them back again and verifies whether the result of the read is the same as what was written to memory. Memtest86+ will only work on 32-bit or 64-bit x86 targets. It boots as an i486 program and autodetects hardware. [Peter: tweak help text as suggested by Thomas] Signed-off-by Stephen M. Kenton <skenton@ou.edu> Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-02-01 01:00:01 +01:00
menuentry "Memtest86+" {
package/*/Config.in: fix help text check-package warnings This commit fixes the warnings reported by check-package on the help text of all package Config.in files, related to the formatting of the help text: should start with a tab, then 2 spaces, then at most 62 characters. The vast majority of warnings fixed were caused by too long lines. A few warnings were related to spaces being used instead of a tab to indent the help text. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-12-18 09:21:05 +01:00
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
memtest86+: new package Memtest86+ is a bootable standalone memory test program. Please note that this is the forked memtest86+ program and not the original memtest86 which has different licensing. Buildroot does not support packages with a '+' sign in their name. Memtest86+ is a utility designed to test whether your memory is in working order. It repeatedly writes an enormous amount of different patterns to all memory locations and reads them back again and verifies whether the result of the read is the same as what was written to memory. Memtest86+ will only work on 32-bit or 64-bit x86 targets. It boots as an i486 program and autodetects hardware. [Peter: tweak help text as suggested by Thomas] Signed-off-by Stephen M. Kenton <skenton@ou.edu> Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2015-02-01 01:00:01 +01:00
}
Other boot loaders will have similar requirements.
http://www.memtest.org
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