memtest

[Kevin Cole]

Norman Silverstone wrote:
> Recently, my grandson asked me to see what was wrong with his desktop
> computer. The fault seemed to be something to do with the hardware and
> it was suggested by someone who knew about these things that I ran a
> check with memtest. OK I agreed but I said that I had not got such a
> thing as memtest. But he told me I had and that it was on my Ubuntu
> install disc. This was the first I had heard of memtest and I have been
> using Ubuntu for over 15 months.

When I boot up, if I'm quick on the draw and hit the ESC during the boot,
it offers the default kernel (which it would have used had I not hit ESC),
any other kernels I have installed, and "memtest"...  Your mileage may
vary.  (The countdown during which you can hit the ESC is rather short,
but you can lengthen it by editing the GRUB menu file /boot/grub/menu.lst
and changing the value for "timeout".)

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