Making a network bootable image of memtest86...

[Thayne Harbaugh]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 15:45, Michael Robinson wrote:
> I believe this is just a binary that is usually copied to the beginning of a 
> floppy disk, no filesystem.  It's for testing memory on x86 computers and
> can be fetched from http://www.memtest.com.  Floppy disks and lilo 
> install is all fine and dandy but I want to be able to network boot 
> memtest via etherboot.  I got Tom's root boot to come up this way.
> What HOWTO's do I need to figure out how to create my own initrd
> Linux system?

memtest86-3.0 binaries are already network bootable - just use etherboot
and point the DHCP configuration at the memtest86 binary (placed in
/tftpboot).

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