Ubuntu
memtest86+ package

Serial support

Bug #50239 reported by John Leach on 2006-06-18

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	memtest86+ (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #308355
	memtest86+ (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I use a serial connection to admin a headless Ubuntu machine. I configured Grub and the kernel to work over the serial port, but memtest86 needs to be recompiled to support this (see SERIAL_CONSOLE_DEFAULT in config.h).

Could the memtest86+ package include serial support? The memtest README states that it slows things down, so could it be configurable? Could the memtest86 package provide a serial and non-serial image for grub? Or could there be a separate package for this?

Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen) on 2006-09-25

Changed in memtest86+:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2006-09-27

Changed in memtest86+:
status:	Unknown → Unconfirmed

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Björn Torkelsson (torkel) wrote on 2008-02-18:

With the latest upstream version, 2.00, you should be able to give it as linux boot parameter. It is not packaged yet though :-(

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-04-28

Changed in memtest86+:
status:	New → Fix Released

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote on 2008-05-20:

verison 2.01 is now in intrepid. Can this bug be closed now?

Changed in memtest86+:
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote on 2008-08-04:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - the Intrepid Ibex.

This is a signficant bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#head-a7a957d3d691c2754ba24e5085481107ed703b49