Hi, On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:23:50PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote: > We've been using kexec to drop into memtest86+ for a few years now. We run > memtest86+ from within our Linux-based hardware test suite. This has always > worked quite well. It was painful to get running at first (kexec was still > young then and wasn't included with our distribution's kernel), but is very easy > to use now. > > Unfortunately, though, we've hit a new snag with our latest platform version. > This is based on Ubuntu 8.04. > > Specific software version info: > > kernel version 2.6.24-19-generic > kexec-tools-testing 20070330 released 30th March 2007 > memtest86+ version 2.01 > > The problem is that memtest86+ reports numerous memory errors when booted via > kexec, booting directly into memtest86+ does not turn up these errors. > > I suspect a device is getting mapped into memory and not deallocated prior to > kexec execution (but I may be putting my ignorance on display). > > Any ideas? Can anyone confirm that my suspicions about this might be correct? Can anyone recommend troubleshooting techniques? Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/attachments/20081028/eb461e99/attachment-0001.bin
