#832744 memtest fails to load

Package:
open-infrastructure-system-images
Source:
open-infrastructure-system-tools
Submitter:
Daniel Lewart
Date:
2026-09-18 11:47:40 UTC
Severity:
normal
#832744#5
Date:
2015-04-29 17:18:26 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

Booted debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-standard.iso from USB stick

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Selected "Advanced options"
Selected "Memory Diagnostic Tool (memtest86+)

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Loading /live/memtest ... failed: No such file or directory

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Memory Diagnostic Tool (memtest86+) to load

Thank you!
Dan
#832744#10
Date:
2015-04-29 20:27:31 UTC
From:
To:
control: reassign -1 live-build
control: close -1

I believe this is something I fixed in my #775322 'Bootloader code issues and improvements' work (yet to be merged), so closing.
#832744#29
Date:
2015-05-08 01:15:02 UTC
From:
To:
This bug is still present in the most recent images/xfce-desktop from
live-images (debian branch, commit c93ad8eb) built with live-build 4.0.3-1.

The underlying cause is that the default for "lb config --memtest" was
set to "none" in this live-build commit for live-build 4.x:

commit 157ba674785b2856a56dfe7a0aeff0b11538be35
Author: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
Date:   Wed Mar 13 21:28:12 2013 +0100
     Setting memtest default to none.

Wheezy is only up to live-build 3.0.5-1 and lacks this change, so
memtest86+ is present in wheezy live images.

Jessie official live images have the memtest86+ isolinux menu options,
but because live-build 4.x defaults to "lb config --memtest none", the
memtest86+ binary is not present in jessie live images.

One solution may be to add "--memtest memtest86+" to auto/config for all
images in live-images on the debian and debian-next branches.

Kind regards,
#832744#34
Date:
2015-05-08 05:33:53 UTC
From:
To:
yes, thanks, that's why i've reopened the bug earlier and reassigned it
to live-images. we'll address it there soon.

Regards,
Daniel
#832744#39
Date:
2015-09-10 16:29:35 UTC
From:
To:
I just tried the debian live 8.2.0 i386 standard live image, and even
though memtest shows up in the menu, it doesn't work. I don't
understand why the menu is even generated if the binary is not even
included.
#832744#44
Date:
2016-02-11 03:40:09 UTC
From:
To:
This bug present also in debian-live-8.3.0-amd64-mate-desktop.iso live
image. And this is almost year since first bug report.
#832744#49
Date:
2016-04-08 00:09:17 UTC
From:
To:
Still present in  debian-live-8.4.0-amd64-lxde-desktop+nonfree.iso .
I boot from USB flash (created by dd ).
#832744#58
Date:
2026-09-18 11:46:11 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package open-infrastructure-system-tools has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1137258

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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