Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get memtest onto a USB drive
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 14:26:20
Message-Id: eb44f876-199c-d3ea-df78-632297d5be2f@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get memtest onto a USB drive by Peter Humphrey
1 On 04/29/2017 05:33 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Saturday 29 Apr 2017 08:57:35 Rasmus Thomsen wrote:
3 >> Hello,
4 >>
5 >> actually had that screen happening to me too, but my hardware was fine.
6 >> Could you try emerging the latest (unstable) memtest86+ package?
7 >> Symlinking should work with that one.
8 >
9 >> Regards,
10 >> Rasmus
11 >
12 > Nope. No can do, since the /boot partition is vfat, which can't handle soft
13 > links.
14 >
15 > Here's a picture of the BIOS screen. This hardware is kaput.
16 >
17
18 Recently had a problem at work where this display corruption occurred,
19 and it turned out to be a bad DVI cable.
20
21 Dan