Comment 5 for bug 1899615
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 1899615] Re: No "Memory test" boot menu entry | #5 |
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 12:17:25PM -0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> We do not have SB signed memtest+ binary.
> On UEFI, laptop manufacturers provide HW check, including memtest / cpu
> / gpu / bus tests, that are integrated into hardware troubleshooting.
> I.e. Dell SupportAssist, which kicks in if all other boot options fail,
> or when manually initiated.
> My preference is for users to use their manufacturer provided memtest /
> hw troubleshooting.
> We could still provide the old memtest on bios boot, but we currently
> don't.
I think providing this as a BIOS-only boot option is reasonable, much as we
currently provide EFI-only boot options.