On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 08:40:06AM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
> That's fine, but if one looks at memtest86, one feels it's not
> terribly NetBSD-friendly. The web page supplies a Linux source-package
> and a DOS binary. Optimally, it would be nice if someone did a port of
> the source package to NetBSD, and made sure that it played
> sufficiently nicely with our boot loader that it could be booted from
> the biosboot prompt (I presume that's feasable).

I was thinking along the same lines... That's not the way it works
under Linux is it? (I have no idea)

It would have to know how to initialize enough of the hardware to
gets the test done. Certainly it wouldn't need drive support, but
it would need keyboard, display, and some subset of bus support.

(And people with USB keyboards... tough luck?)

Nonetheless, a package could be built in pkgsrc to retrieve the
bootable floppy image and create the floppy easily. That would
at least be somewhat 'NetBSD friendly'.

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