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| author |   Kyle Guinn <elyk03@gmail.com> | 2018-10-06 21:56:21 -0500 |
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| committer |   Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2018-10-13 08:03:07 +0700 |
| commit | 7038f6c0368dddc66ef2814449e21dfd7ea265fb (patch) | |
| tree | deeacb3482fd82a2e4889fe6db213257ee895229 /system/memtest86/README | |
| parent | ab118cea2f0b99122fd980a2421ad77f7558ef28 (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-7038f6c0368dddc66ef2814449e21dfd7ea265fb.tar.gz slackbuilds-7038f6c0368dddc66ef2814449e21dfd7ea265fb.tar.xz | |
system/memtest86: Update README with instructions for GRUB 2
Signed-off-by: Kyle Guinn <elyk03@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/system/memtest86/README b/system/memtest86/README index 1fee49c052..0cad000052 100644 --- a/system/memtest86/README +++ b/system/memtest86/README @@ -2,4 +2,32 @@ Memtest86 is a thorough, stand-alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are a quick, cursory check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86. -See README.SLACKWARE for setup information. +This package installs a bootable image to /boot/memtest86.bin +which is similar to the kernel images in the same directory. + + +LILO users: Append this to your /etc/lilo.conf: + + image = /boot/memtest86.bin + label = memtest86 + +Then run `/sbin/lilo` to update the boot loader. +Don't forget to re-run `/sbin/lilo` if you upgrade this package. + + +GRUB 2 users: Append something like this to your /etc/grub.d/40_custom: + + menuentry 'memtest86' { + linux16 (hd0,1)/boot/memtest86.bin + } + +Then run `grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg` to update the boot menu. + + +GRUB Legacy users: Append something like this to your /boot/grub/menu.lst: + + title memtest86 + kernel (hd0,0)/boot/memtest86.bin + + +See /usr/doc/memtest86-$VERSION/README for more info. |