[ipxe-devel] memtest as a PXE NBP

[Andrew Bobulsky]

On Jul 12, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> wrote:

> Something that might be of interest:
>
> I have created a modified version of memtest86+ which can be built as a PXE
> NBP.  The binary (memtest.0) can be loaded by iPXE, or by any other PXE stack.
>
> If it's loaded via an iPXE script, then the script can report successes and
> failures of the test.  For example:
>
>  #!ipxe
>
>  chain memtest.0 passes=1 && goto memory_good || goto memory_bad
>
>  :memory_good
>  exit
>
>  :memory_bad
>  imgfetch http://192.168.0.1/report_failure.php?mac=${mac}&uuid=${uuid}
>  exit
>
> The modified memtest86+ code is at
>
>  http://git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/memtest.git/shortlog/refs/heads/pxe
>
> and a precompiled binary is available from
>
>  http://boot.ipxe.org/memtest.0
>
> Michael
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Interested?  Absolutely!

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that incorporates memtest86 into
his PXE boot menus, and being able to script it is definitely a fine
addition.

Great work :)

Cheers,
Andrew Bobulsky