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On Friday 28 Apr 2017 22:33:35 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> I have a nearly new machine which is already showing signs of hardware |
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> failure. I'd like to check its memory, for which memtest86+ seems |
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> suitable. But I can't install it via portage because this is a UEFI |
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> machine and so its boot partition is vfat; the install phase fails |
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> because symbolic links can't be done. |
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> I downloaded an ISO image from http://www.memtest.org/#downiso and used |
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> unetbootin to write it to the USB. It won't boot. I then tried dd but got |
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> the same result. |
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> What's the recommended way to put a bootable memtest86+ image, or |
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> equivalent, on a USB stick? |
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Never mind. I dd'd the .bin file instead of the .iso and it did try to boot. |
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Got nowhere though because the damn thing's jiggered. |
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Sorry about the noise. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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