Using memtest86 with UEFI

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 01:27:34PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:22:00 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > It's formatted as a boot sector (i.e. something the BIOS can boot from
> > directly) but that doesn't mean it actually has a partition table.
> > fdisk is just showing you whatever garbage results from trying to
> > interpret machine code as a partition table.  The result is meaningless.
> 
> And it is probably not something the UEFI boot code knows what to do with.  
> That is, it is not a UEFI boot loader.

Correct.  Those are quite a different beast.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]