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

[Bill Moran]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:29:23 -0500 (EST)
Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:

> 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?

You may want to consider getting the memtest .iso image and booting off
it - I've always had better success that way than installing it.

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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.