[lug] Diagnostic Testing

[rm at fabula.de]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:05:31AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> In researching mondo (a CD-R/CD-RW backup tool) I found a CD ISO on
> their website somewhere that had memtest86 and some CPU pounding tools
> for pushing hardware to the limits on a "test your hardware" CD they put
> out.  
> 
> Making a bootable CD with memtest86 is infinitely "do-able", but finding
> one pre-built was kinda a nice surprise the other day... it joined the
> other "Don't Leave Home Without It" CD's in my backpack for system
> recovery/repair/testing.  :-)

I actually put a dedicated "test/rescue" partition on the servers that
i have to administer. I case of emergency i can call up a technician
and ask him/her to rebot the server and select 'hwtest' from the
GRUB menu ...

 hth Ralf Mattes