Comment 26 for bug 19885

Seeing that this bug is still troubling people, I thought I would
chime in on what does work.

Memtest86+ v4.00 loads and works just fine with GRUB 0.97 on my
machine which is an Asus A7M266-VM motherboard with an Athlon 2 GHz
CPU and 1.2GB RAM. I had to change the load address as described in my
workaround email, though. That original workaround, I posted to the
forum on memtest.org and then to the Debian bug tracker. The forum
was reorganized and the original thread lost. So it looks like
the Debian bug tracker is now the primary source for new information.

Adrian, can you tell me if memtest86+ v4.00 will load with grub 0.97
and/or will load if you reduce the amount of memory on your system?
Both memtest86 and memtest86+ have to be fixed to boot normally with
GRUB, but, we can try to see until then, if workarounds are possible.

BTW, Chris Brady's memtest v3.5 will load on my system with the same
workaround, but it will hang soon after. That might be an unrelated
problem.

gcc-4.x used to be a problem when it came to building from source, as the
memtest.org website said, but it is no longer so with memtest86+ v4.0.
This version I compile using gcc-4.4.2 and it runs all the tests just
fine.

Rajeev