From: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH kernel-helper v2] fix #7223: proxmox-boot: add memtest86 as entry to all boot-loaders
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:43:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260227144336.3029652-1-s.ivanov@proxmox.com> (raw)
memtest86+ ships a config-snippet for grub configuration, and is thus
present on installations using grub (although currently not functional
when secure-boot is enabled), without proxmox-boot-tool.
adding an equivalent entry for memtest86+ on systems, where
proxmox-boot-tool manages the boot-loader seems like an improvement
and a step to having similar functionality in our different
boot-loader setups.
Tested by installing proxmox-kernel-helper with this patch and running
proxmox-boot-tool reinit, followed by rebooting into memtest86+ on a
systemd-booted system. Additionally tested the addition of the entry
in grub, by both installing on a system booted in legacy bios mode and
one where I ran `proxmox-boot-tool init /dev/sdX2 grub` (after
formatting). To get the entry in grub a `proxmox-boot-tool refresh`
call is needed (so that `update-grub` generates the entries). As this
will get called anyways upon installation from ISO, and on each
kernel-upgrade I decided against calling it in `proxmox-boot-tool
init|reinit` additionally.
Suggested-by: Daniel Herzig <d.herzig@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
---
this patch supersedes:
https://lore.proxmox.com/all/20260225183621.201783-1-s.ivanov@proxmox.com/
v1->v2
* added a reference to #7223 - thanks @Laurentiu for the hint!
* additionally add memtest to grub-booted systems - thanks @Daniel Herzig for
the feedback and additional tests!
src/bin/proxmox-boot-tool | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/bin/proxmox-boot-tool b/src/bin/proxmox-boot-tool
index 95d699d..ee04193 100755
--- a/src/bin/proxmox-boot-tool
+++ b/src/bin/proxmox-boot-tool
@@ -158,7 +158,13 @@ init_bootloader() {
fi
fi
+
if [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ]; then
+ memtest=memtest86+x64.efi
+ if [ -f "/boot/$memtest" ]; then
+ echo "Adding $memtest .."
+ cp "/boot/$memtest" "$esp_mp/"
+ fi
if [ -n "$mode" ] && [ "$mode" = "grub" ]; then
echo "Installing grub x86_64 target.."
grub-install.real \
@@ -196,8 +202,23 @@ init_bootloader() {
echo "timeout 3" > "$esp_mp/$PMX_LOADER_CONF.tmp"
echo "default proxmox-*" >> "$esp_mp/$PMX_LOADER_CONF.tmp"
mv "$esp_mp/$PMX_LOADER_CONF.tmp" "$esp_mp/$PMX_LOADER_CONF"
+ memtest_conf="$esp_mp/loader/entries/$memtest.conf"
+ if [ -f "/boot/$memtest" ]; then
+ echo "Adding $memtest .."
+ cp "/boot/$memtest" "$esp_mp/EFI/"
+ cat > "$memtest_conf.tmp" <<- EOF
+ title Memory test ($memtest)
+ efi /EFI/$memtest
+ EOF
+ mv "$memtest_conf.tmp" "$memtest_conf"
+ fi
fi
else
+ memtest=memtest86+x64.bin
+ if [ -f "/boot/$memtest" ]; then
+ echo "Adding $memtest .."
+ cp "/boot/$memtest" "$esp_mp/"
+ fi
echo "Installing grub i386-pc target.."
grub-install.real \
--boot-directory "$esp_mp" \
--
2.47.3
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