Hi!
Am 16.10.2023 um 12:13 schrieb Michael Prokop:
I just had the issue that the memtest86+ on my grml usb stick always
froze
Good to know :)
This is a Problem I saw a lot starting maybe with the Intel i-Series. Sometimes it helped to use the Failsafe mode, but on a 3rd-gen i3 not even that worked. But it is also good to see that this was eventually fixed in the newer versions of memtest86+.
The grml64-full 2022.11-ISO indeed ships memtest86+ in version 6.00-1 and this is the one that also starts when booting in *EFI* mode, but in *BIOS* mode it indeed ends up as memtest86+ v5.01.
This is caused by a combination of different facts, but long story short, the memtest binary for BIOS boot ends up being the one from the building host (and not the ones from the live system, as already being done for EFI situation). This is known as https://github.com/grml/grml/issues/178 and https://github.com/grml/grml-live/issues/128.
Now that we have Debian bookworm with memtest86+ v6.10-4 available as base, things should hopefully be easier to sort out. :)
Aha I see! Yes, I was testing with a good ol' BIOS. Looking forward to the next GRML release then ;)
Best, Sebastian