Memtest86+ Installed but not working

[azziam]

I added some more RAM to my machine and wanted to test it so I went to Add/Remove software and added memtest86+. There is now a new GRUB entry for this but it is not working. Clicking on Memory Test just reboots my PC. Is it working for others?

[doktor5000]

What bootloader do you use currently? grub legacy or grub2?
Please show the output of

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rpm -qa | grep grub

[azziam]

As far as I know, it's legacy.

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grub-0.97-39.mga4


[azziam]

The line in grub shows:

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title memtest
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/memtest.bin BOOT_IMAGE=memtest

And the binary is in /boot.

[daniewicz]

azziam,

I do not wish to discourage you from trying to use memtest within Mageia. However, I will point out that you can run memtest outside of Mageia using the ultimate boot cd (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/)

[azziam]

I do have a fairly up to date UBCD if I can find it, and I will. OTOH, it's not bad to have a memtest entry in grub so maybe someone else can comment whether or not it's working for them. I have to assume it was working before or it wouldn't be available. I'm going to try removing and re-installing it anyway.

[doktor5000]

Only related bug I've found: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10001

[rolf]

I experience the same problem and found this thread in the Search

Here is a new bug report: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18261

[rolf]

I have an installation of ROSA Desktop.Fresh release 2012.1 (Desktop) for x86_64 on this machine with memtest86+-4.20-2-rosa2012.1.x86_64 installed. I can boot memtest.bin in that installation from the legacy grub command line at boot. I can copy that file to /boot of Mageia 5 and boot it from the legacy grub menu entry, as written by the memtest installation:

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title memtest86+
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/memtest.bin

I would say the problem lies with the newer memtest.bin or the interaction with my hardware, perhaps. There are many disks, partitions, and installations on this machine, so I found this memtest.bin in grub shell with `find /boot/memtest.bin` then tried it. Some analysis:

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[root@p8z68 rolf]# mount /dev/sde2 /mnt/disk
[root@p8z68 rolf]# mount --bind /dev /mnt/disk/dev/
[root@p8z68 rolf]# mount --bind /sys /mnt/disk/sys/
[root@p8z68 rolf]# mount --bind /proc /mnt/disk/proc/

[root@p8z68 rolf]# ll /mnt/disk/boot/memtest.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176760 Oct 19  2012 /mnt/disk/boot/memtest.bin

[root@p8z68 rolf]# ll /boot/memtest.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 182704 Sep 21  2014 /boot/memtest.bin*

[root@p8z68 rolf]# chroot /mnt/disk

[root@p8z68 /]# rpm -qf /boot/memtest.bin
memtest86+-4.20-2-rosa2012.1.x86_64

[root@p8z68 /]# urpmq --sources memtest86+
http://mirror.rosalab.ru/rosa2012.1/repository/x86_64/media/main/release/memtest86+-4.20-2-rosa2012.1.x86_64.rpm

[root@p8z68 /]# cat /etc/release
ROSA Desktop.Fresh release 2012.1 (Desktop) for x86_64