I suspect I can't see the wood for the trees but I am having massive issues trying to test the memory on an HP Proliant DL380 gen8 system and I need help!
When I use an Ubuntu 20.04 install, boot Grub I can select memtest86+ - The problem I have is that it always freezes at the very start of test 7 in the first few seconds of memory testing. If anyone can definitively advise that this means the memory is bad I'd appreciate the advice - however from this reddit post it seems probable to me its an error with Memtest86+ 5.01. Its been less then an hour, but thus far "memtester 60G" under Ubuntu has not failed which would seem to support the Reddit post.
I try download and burn a USB image for Memtest86 5.31b (and burn it to an iso with pv. The iso mounts fine on my desktop) - This fails to boot on the Gen8 server is there any non-obvious trick to booting this?
I believe I can't use memtest86 as it requires UEFI boot which Gen8 servers don't do.
I have been unable to find a .elf binary for memtest86+ 5.31b - and, of-course, trying to boot the .bin file fails.
Absent being able to get memtest86 / memtest86+ to work, how good a stand-in is running "memtester 60G" from Ubuntu 20.04 on a system with 64 gigs of memory?
Is there any way to get memtest86+ working properly on my server, or any good alternative solution which does not require a running that I can use to test the systems memory?
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