{"id":1762,"date":"2021-11-20T12:44:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T12:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:26:00","slug":"gripe-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"Gripe of the day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>2021-11-21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I&#8217;m still, in between tinkering with FPGAs, trying to settle upon a Linux distro for desktop use.  I still keep coming back to Mint Mate edition despite the annoyances I&#8217;ve found with the latest version, and having installed both an SSD and some extra RAM in the machine I&#8217;m about to migrate to, I figured I&#8217;d better run some tests.  The Ubuntu (and thus Mint) live install contains Memtest86+ so I booted from USB, selected the test and watched the machine lock up half way through the very first test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Odd, since the machine actually runs just fine&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out the <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/memtest86+\/+bug\/1876157\">version of Memtest86+ in the current Ubuntu LTS is completely and horribly broken.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The solution to my problem was to install memtest86+ using apt, then remove it again.  The removal doesn&#8217;t remove the meta files, so provided there&#8217;s an image of the correct name in \/boot it remains in the grub menu.  Therefore, one can download a non-broken binary, copy it to \/boot, run grub-update and *now* the RAM test actually works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One side-effect, however, is that the grub setup installed by the USB live system when installing Linux is somewhat different from what you get when you subsequently run grub-update from the installed-and-running system &#8211; I had to edit some config files to get the menu back..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021-11-21 So I&#8217;m still, in between tinkering with FPGAs, trying to settle upon a Linux distro for desktop use. I still keep coming back to Mint Mate edition despite the annoyances I&#8217;ve found with the latest version, and having installed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/?p=1762\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroramblings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}