You can download it as an RPM, or standalone or you can use the Clonezilla livecd I think it has it onboard. http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/memtest86/ http://www.memtest86.com/ http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/ the only bad thing about this is that it will take the server offline for hours. Something I have not been able to do with my server. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grazyna Rymaszewska Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:07 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Mysterious RHEL 4 crash Could you explain what is 'memtest86', please!!! I have the same trouble: rebooting server with nothing in message log. And I don't know how to find 'memtest86' in my RedHat4. Graza 2007/8/30, m.roth2006@xxxxxxx <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx>: > >Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:13:04 -0700 > >From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >I did a hardware reset. What is the 3 finger kill? > > You've never heard of <crtl><alt><delete> as the three-finger kill? > > At any rate, it sounds to me as though you have a hardware problem *sigh*. Since you rebooted, and it did the std. fsck (I would hope), then you might try taking the system down, and running memtest86. > > Let me note that I spent months resolving my wife's system, which had the same thing - it would freeze, mostly with a screensaver on, but sometimes while using it. Turned out to be the video card. > > mark > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > >[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of m.roth2006@xxxxxxx > >Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:07 AM > >To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > >Subject: Re: Mysterious RHEL 4 crash > > > >>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:47:33 -0700 > >>From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >>My server decided to crash about 10pm last night. It just locked up. > >I > >>came in this morning and the console was unresponsive, no virtual > >>terminal, nothing. /var/log/messages doesn't show anything either. > >>Admittedly I am pretty new to linux, and I don't know what other logs I > >>can check. > ><snip> > >How did you restart it - the three-finger kill, or did you need to do a > >hardware reset? > > > > mark > > > >-- > >redhat-list mailing list > >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > >-- > >redhat-list mailing list > >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
