[ipxe-devel] memtest as a PXE NBP

[Anton D. Kachalov]

It's great!

Would it be possible to store logs in the memory and then post the results to the server via http? It might help to automate memory testing…


12.07.2012, 20:27, "Michael Brown" <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk>:

>  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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Anton D. Kachalov