[Cialug] Crashing with errors in mcelog

[Aaron Porter]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley
<daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> My previous statement about memtest86 just flat out not working still
> stands, however. Both before and after removing the bad RAM, when i
> select memtest86 in grub, the screen goes black and after less than a
> second reboots. So, memtest86 is functionally similar to the computer's
> reset button.

One of the many joys of a "self hosted" sanity check. Remember --
memtest is just another set of bits running on the same suspect
hardware and subject to most of the same failure cases, no matter how
carefully it tries to avoid and detect them.