> | > What a pity that apparently nothing like this exists which
> | > can be run under a NetBSD kernel.
> | 
> | Memory diagnostics are best run standalone (as with memtest86), IMHO.
> 
> 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

Just curious, but how much memory does it take to boot NetBSD.  Wouldn't
you want the kernel and the memtest program to fit in 512kB or less?

henry