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Baljinder Badyal
Asked: 2016-11-12 16:49:47 +0800 CST

Run memtest in terminal [duplicate]

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I am running Ubuntu from flash drive and I would like to run memtest in terminal mode as multiple processes, I see file resides in boot directory but not able to execute as I get message "permission denied" not able to make the file executable either.

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  1. memtest is usually run separately to a Linux kernel (selected as a boot option instead of Ubuntu), although you could download a memtest package and run it from within Ubuntu with the following commands.

    sudo apt-get install memtester
sudo memtester 1024 5

    Running it separately to Ubuntu gives it greater access to the machine's memory, so is the preferred method.

    See How to check for errors in RAM via linux? for more details.

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