test memory chips with Knoppix

[Tony Godshall]

According to Joshua Kwan,
> On 12/08/2005 10:13 AM, Tom Simons wrote:
> > I have a bunch of memory sticks, some of which are bad (we replaced
> > all the memory from a server that kept dying from memory errors).  I'd
> > like to find the good sticks by testing them on an old PowerEdge 1300.
> >  I can insert single sticks at a time, booting Knoppix 4.0 in text
> > mode from cd, but what commands can I use to test?
> 
> Check out Memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com)
> 
> You can't run it from within Knoppix, but you should be able to get a
> Memtest86 boot-CD or floppy image.

I seem to recall (... YES!  google.com/linux confirms... )
that LNX-BBC has memtest, onboard, as a boot option.  (See, for
example, http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6890 .  Further
references are left as an exercise for the google, er,
reader.)