Team,
I've been working on this update for a bit due to the need to diagnose some failed hardware. You can find the latest here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137395
Hopefully we could get this update finalized. The shortlist of outstanding issues:
* Secure boot doesn't work; without signing the UEFI by the FPO this requires secure boot to be toggled off (can be toggled back on after running memtest) * Package %scripts to automatically update grub config * Review of the simplified configuration snippet for grub * Location of shipped bins -- is there a better place now? I went with simple. * Figure out correct way to enable this on ostree or maybe add a Conflicts for now
I'm not confident it's worth waiting to address all of the issues right away. Secure boot and ostree support could be done in subsequent updates, if at all.
On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 8:59 AM Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry for reviving this old thread but memtest86+ just hit 6.20
milestone and it looks like they restored non-UEFI boot support. Looks
like it could be done for both types of systems as easy as this
(assuming you're using grub2 for booting the kernel):
menuentry 'memtest86+' {
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,gpt1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt1
--hint-efi=hd0,gpt1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt1 <actual fs uuid>
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root <actual fs uuid>
fi
linux /boot/memtest64.efi
}
Should we just start moving forward away from the quite antique 5.xx version?
On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 3:00 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Earlier discussion:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg169800.html
>
> Current memtest86+ 5.x requires non-UEFI, which makes it increasingly
> irrelevant to modern hardware. memtest86 forked into a proprietary
> product some time ago. However there is hope because upstream
> memtest86+ 6.00 is (a) open source and (b) seems to work despite the
> large warnings on the website:
>
> https://memtest.org/
>
> Note this new version is derived from pcmemtest mentioned in the
> thread above which is only indirectly derived from memtest86+ 5.x and
> removes some features.
>
> So my question is are we planning to move to v6.00 in future?
>
> I did attempt to build a Fedora RPM, but it basically involves
> removing large sections of the existing RPM (eg. the downstream script
> we add seems unnecessary now and the downstream README would need to
> be completely rewritten). It's probably only necessary to have
> memtest.efi be installed as /boot/memtest.efi and although it won't
> appear automatically in the grub menu, it can be accessed by a trivial
> two line command.
>
> Rich.
>
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