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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?

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

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rpm -qa | grep grub

As far as I know, it's legacy.

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grub-0.97-39.mga4


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.

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/)

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.

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

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

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