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MemTest 437/501/RH - my tries make exe variants (Developers)

posted by Mercury127, 12.06.2019, 22:40

> Maybe better way would be to look in grub4dos sources how it loads kernel
> images and make a minimum stub of it instead patching abandoned memtest dos
> loader.
> BTW sometimes it happen to me that even working memtest.exe hangs at
> startup from dos and after hard reset it runs. So the loader is not very
> reliable. I observed this on verious mechines so it is not a specific HW
> quirk.

I think grub4dos is overkill for such task. Better try adopt loadlin...

Complete thread:

• MemTest 437/501/RH - my tries make exe variants - Mercury127, 26.05.2019, 12:00
  • MemTest 437/501/RH - my tries make exe variants - RayeR, 28.05.2019, 00:14
    • MemTest 437/501/RH - my tries make exe variants - Mercury127, 28.05.2019, 10:24
      • MemTest 437/501/RH - my tries make exe variants - tkchia, 31.05.2019, 17:08
        • MemTest 437/501/RH - my tries make exe variants - RayeR, 08.06.2019, 02:06
          • MemTest 437/501/RH - my tries make exe variants - Mercury127, 09.06.2019, 20:53
            • MemTest 437/501/RH - my tries make exe variants - RayeR, 12.06.2019, 02:43
              • MemTest 437/501/RH - my tries make exe variants - Mercury127, 12.06.2019, 22:40
                • MemTest 437/501/RH - my tries make exe variants - RayeR, 22.06.2019, 00:28