[TAG] 2c tips: troubleshooting memory

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:49:44PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
>  --- Tom Brown <tfbrown at ceinetworks.com> wrote: 
> 
> > system recently), run a utility such as "memtest-86". It's free, and 
> > available from www.memtest86.com.  It also comes with SuSE Linux, and 
> 
> This has been documented *countless* times over the years (c.f. the thread
> I gave you last time around about diagnosing bug reports). The thing to
> remember here is that memtest86 is not a utility, but rather a bootloader.

Well, IMNSHO, no, it's not.  A boot-time loadable standalone utility,
perhaps, but inasmuch as it does not itself boot *other* programs, it's
not a bootloader.

Cheers,
-- jra
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