Bug 12650 – memtest86 isn't on the livecd(s)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Zack Gilburd 2002-12-23 21:54:58 UTC]

why?  i can't think of a single reason why it should be left out.  it is a royal
pain in the arse to not have it.

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-12-24 01:28:51 UTC]

I'll add it. :)

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-12-28 21:58:50 UTC]

I wanted to add this but I'm having a hard time getting memtest to boot properly
from the CD. It just seems to hang with an error whether I use "memtest" or
"memtest.bin" as a kernel image. It may only compile with gcc-2.95.x :/

[Comment 3 Zack Gilburd 2002-12-30 18:17:19 UTC]

what about putting a precompiled version on the CD or will that not work?  i
think that the issue is merely to have it on there as a debugging tool.

zack

[Comment 4 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-01-10 02:21:29 UTC]

Tried the precompiled version, but couldn't get isolinux 2.0 to boot the thing. :/

[Comment 5 Brad Normand 2003-03-19 20:43:00 UTC]

If you're booting it as a floppy image, you need to add some zeros to the end of 
the floppy image because its loader tries loading more from the disk into memory 
than is in the image (I saw a bunch of register status dumps repeating when this 
happened). 

[Comment 6 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:47:45 UTC]

LiveWire now has memtest86 on our experimental LiveCDs; forwarding to him for verification. If so, this bug can be closed.

[Comment 7 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 12:42:16 UTC]

yes, this is working on latest experimentals 

[Comment 8 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-03-09 13:34:47 UTC]

needed on the new livecds

[Comment 9 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-03-15 11:42:41 UTC]

livecd bugs, not release bugs

[Comment 10 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-03-24 18:12:25 UTC]

fixed in catalyst CVS