Re: Oops with 2.4.23

From: Mike Fedyk
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 14:09:24 EST


On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:06:01PM +0100, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:47:42AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > Andrew,
> >
> > This is likely to be bad memory.
> >
> > Can you try memtest86 on the box ?
>
> Hello,
>
> Before install Debian GNU/Linux Woody on this box, i have ran memtest
> with a bootable media and have no error after 13 pass. But i have added
> memory after. It comes from an other PC running perfectly with this. So
> i think it could come from the memory but if you want i can launch
> memtest again this night ;).

There is a difference between memtest and memtest86. memtest86 tests all of
your memory, and memtest can only test the userspace memory it can lock.
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