On Wednesday 07 January 2004 14:29, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > I'm not aware of any memory test utility that runs under FreeBSD. If one > is out there, it would most certainly require some type of kld to allow it > to have direct access to random parts of system memory. I consider it is > bad mojo to run hardware tests on a machine booted in multi-user mode. In > order to get a definitive answer (and eliminate false-positives which > could show up due to kernel bugs) and save yourself a lot of time and > hassles, boot their floppy or bootable cd. I wonder if you could squish it into the loader? That would be kind of neat if you want to do a weekly memory test :) You could alter loader.conf to run the command, then have the loader alter it back just before running the memory test (once around then reboot) Hmm... :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5Received on Tue Jan 06 2004 - 19:45:37 UTC
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