[Cialug] Crashing with errors in mcelog

[kristau]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Aaron Porter <atporter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

What he said.  memtest uses a small amount of RAM to load itself, then
tests the rest.  It is entirely possible that some part of the first X
kb of RAM is bad and that is why memtest won't load. . .

-- 
Tired programmer
Coding late into the night
The core dump follows