Hello list, any try the new memtest86 v3.2 with isolinux 3.11 cd and pxeboot? How is the proper way to chainload memtest86 I was tried: label memtest kernel memtest.bin but, nothing happens just a weird hang (my older versions of memtest hangs too). Anyway chainloading in a floppy image with memdisk on CD or pxeboot was fine but if I use memory to emulate a floppy I was not using this memory to be tested. May be is not the way, but on my old disks memtest was using just a label and kernel otion for te binary image, and I just replace the old memtest with the new one to use the image on pxeboot and my rescue CDs. Any try? :) -- Gustavo Guillermo P?rez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Gustavo Guillermo P?rez wrote:> Hello list, any try the new memtest86 v3.2 with isolinux 3.11 cd and pxeboot? > How is the proper way to chainload memtest86 > > I was tried: > label memtest > kernel memtest.binTry renaming the memtest kernel image to something other a '.bin'. HTH, --- Ryan Go Renaissance Technologies Corp. 631-444-7000 Direct: 631-444-7105
El Martes, 20 de Septiembre de 2005 14:24, Ryan Go escribi?:> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Gustavo Guillermo P?rez wrote: > > Hello list, any try the new memtest86 v3.2 with isolinux 3.11 cd and > > pxeboot? How is the proper way to chainload memtest86 > > > > I was tried: > > label memtest > > kernel memtest.bin > > Try renaming the memtest kernel image to something other a '.bin'.Thanks a lot, it works, sorry... This kind of binary files less than 2K can be the bootstraps of winNTX? Regards -- Gustavo Guillermo P?rez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com
Gustavo Guillermo P?rez wrote:> Hello list, any try the new memtest86 v3.2 with isolinux 3.11 cd and pxeboot? > How is the proper way to chainload memtest86 > > I was tried: > label memtest > kernel memtest.binI believe you have to rename memtest.bin to something like memtestbin (no dot) and adjust your labels accordingly. syslinux treats .bin files as something that memtest.bin is not. -Sam
On 9/20/05, Gustavo Guillermo P?rez <gustavo at compunauta.com> wrote:> Hello list, any try the new memtest86 v3.2 with isolinux 3.11 cd and pxeboot? > How is the proper way to chainload memtest86 > > I was tried: > label memtest > kernel memtest.bin > > but, nothing happens just a weird hang (my older versions of memtest hangs > too). Anyway chainloading in a floppy image with memdisk on CD or pxeboot was > fine but if I use memory to emulate a floppy I was not using this memory to > be tested. > > May be is not the way, but on my old disks memtest was using just a label and > kernel otion for te binary image, and I just replace the old memtest with the > new one to use the image on pxeboot and my rescue CDs. > > Any try? > > :) > -- > Gustavo Guillermo P?rez > Compunauta uLinux > www.compunauta.com > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. > >My impression from what you've said is that you've run into the rather painful annoying problem I've run into in the past. The file distributed on the main site is a floppy image with unused bits removed, causing things like memdisk to get upset or something along those lines. The easiest way I found to get it working in my case was to mount the disk image in something and extract the kernel image and initrd image, then boot those as a normal linux kernel would via syslinux. I think I read that if you specified certain exact commands on the command line you could get the disk image to work, but, it doesn't seem worth all the extra effort. (Sorry for the sort of "double post." I'm STILL not used to mailing lists...)