Latest Memtest86+ for Ubuntu?
Thursday, February 21, 2008 | Labels: Ubuntu | |If you noticed in Ubuntu, the file /boot/grub/menu.lst has an entry for Memtest. It's using Memtest86+ v1.7. The latest version is v2.0 which was released on February 8th, 2008.
To get the latest memtest is easy. Just download the Pre-Compiled Bootable Binary from here.
Unzip the archive, and copy the bin file over to /boot/. You are going to need root privilege to do this, so:
sudo mv memtest86+-2.00.bin /boot/
We have to edit Grub's menu.lst so that the new Memtest shows up in the Grub menu.
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Put this end at the end of the file:
title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+2.0
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/memtest86+-2.00.bin
quiet
Save it, and close the file. To test, you can reboot, press escape when Grub is loading and choose the new entry and the Memtest will start as usual :)
