StokeBloke.com

Fedora enable memtest

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Well I started to have some strange crashes from some programs and this morning my PC just turned itself off.

I really expected it to be a memory problem so I needed to enable memtest86+ on my new fedora installation.

I quickly found http://fooninja.net/2011/05/05/loading-memtest-from-grub-fedora/

This is still valid.

Simply append

title Memtest86+ (4.10)
    root (hd0,4)
    kernel --type=netbsd /elf-memtest86+-4.10

to the end of the /boot/grub/grub.conf and reboot

Voilà errors Memtest86+ screen shotnow I just need to figure out which memory to take out 🙂