Ubuntu 6.06 Machine Constantly locking up.

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 02:29:10 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 22 August 2006 14:23, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On 8/22/06, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If that doesn't turn up anything, run the memtest utility
> > (pretty sure it's an option on the install cd, or download and
> > burn yourself a cd with that on it.)   If it shows errors that's
> > likely your problem.  If it dies doing that, suspect the power supply...
>
> It's actually an option during a normal boot.  Hit ESC at the Starting
> GRUB prompt and select memtest86 from the menu:
>
> From the installed /boot/grub/menu.lst:
>
> title           Ubuntu, memtest86+
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/memtest86+.bin
> boot
>

Well gosh darn it - it is so!
Thanks for pointing that out!

Brian

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