On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:11:33PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It could use the same standalone library which biosboot uses.
> 
> > (And people with USB keyboards... tough luck?)
> 
> biosboot works with USB keyboards using the bios keyboard driver,
> right?

I don't know the answer - but I did find the answer to something else -
under Linux, Memtest86 can be run from LILO. So I'd imagine it includes
everything to make basic keyboard/display combos usable. It may not
handle USB of course.

I took a (brief) shot at building it, but it's not happy with the NetBSD's
gnu as. Has anyone listening gotten it to compile on NetBSD before?

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