[wplug] Addendum: Memtest86+.bin "too big for memory?"

kimberly kim at starjewel.org
Tue Mar 14 14:33:47 EST 2006


Try booting from a livecd and running memtest86 from there? 

I missed which distro we're discussing, but I know specifically Gentoo
livecds should have memtest86. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-bounces+kim=starjewel.org at wplug.org 
> [mailto:wplug-bounces+kim=starjewel.org at wplug.org] On Behalf 
> Of Brandon Kuczenski
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:29 AM
> To: WPLUG
> Subject: [wplug] Addendum: Memtest86+.bin "too big for memory?"
> 
> So I installed memtest86+.bin into my /boot directory and 
> added it to menu.lst using 'update-grub,' which did it 
> automatically.  When I tried to boot into it, i was advised 
> it's 'too big to fit into memory'.  It's only 94k and the 
> vmlinuz files I've got in there are all at least 10x bigger. 
> Google found nothing with memtest86+.bin and "too big". What do I do?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Brandon
> 
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