Talk:Memtest86+

Memtest failures
I tried this with memtest+-4.20-r1 and grub2 and when I reboot and try to run the image, I get an error that /boot/memtest86plus/memtest is not found.

memtest+-5.01 worked fine with grub2

Johnjaylward (talk) 21:09, 2 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi, this is probably something to ask about on the forums or in Gentoo's support channel on IRC (. Once you determine the issue then you can come back here and let us know if our documentation is wrong, or if you had a user error. :) Kind regards, --Maffblaster (talk) 17:52, 3 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi . I didn't change any default settings. My guess is that the grub2 setup for 4.x is wrong. The grub2 setup for 5.x is certainly more involved than what was shown for 4.x. I was simply noting here for other users that try and fail with 4.x that 5.x was working. If you want I can open a bug, but I see no reason to start a discussion about this on either irc or the forums.
 * Johnjaylward (talk) 17:59, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

grub2 command
On my system, the grub2 config command is and not. Not sure if that is standard on all systems now, or if it is due to some use-flag I enabled at some point. If it is standard, we should update that. Johnjaylward (talk) 18:12, 3 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Noted in the article. Thanks. - dcljr (talk) 19:44, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

memtest86+ binaires
I tried to use memtest86+ with syslinux. However given 'memtest' binary doesn't work, but 'memtest.bin' works fine. In this page 'memtest' binary should be replaced by 'memtest.bin'.