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From: "Laurențiu Leahu-Vlăducu" <l.leahu-vladucu@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel-helper] proxmox-boot: add memtest86 as entry to systemd-boot
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:01:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dec2493-7f82-4c8d-99b1-231901b0a4e2@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260225183621.201783-1-s.ivanov@proxmox.com>

Thanks for working on this! This is certainly something that quite a few 
people have asked for over time.

For reference:
- this has been asked for on our forum [0]
- this patch fixes issue #7223 - see [1]



[0] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/memtest86.163802/
[1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7223



On 25.02.26 19:37, Stoiko Ivanov wrote:
> 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).
> 
> adding an equivalent entry for memtest86+ on systemd-booted systems
> seems like an improvment 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.
> 
> Suggested-by: Daniel Herzig <d.herzig@proxmox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
> ---
> not 100% sure if it's worth adding, but both Daniel and I thought this might
> exist and I remember missing it once on a host of mine
> 
>   src/bin/proxmox-boot-tool | 11 +++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/bin/proxmox-boot-tool b/src/bin/proxmox-boot-tool
> index 95d699d..b785c7d 100755
> --- a/src/bin/proxmox-boot-tool
> +++ b/src/bin/proxmox-boot-tool
> @@ -196,6 +196,17 @@ 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=memtest86+x64.efi
> +			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
>   		echo "Installing grub i386-pc target.."





      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-02-26 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-25 18:35 Stoiko Ivanov
2026-02-25 18:39 ` Stoiko Ivanov
2026-02-26 12:47 ` Hannes Laimer
2026-02-26 13:39 ` Daniel Herzig
2026-02-26 14:01 ` Laurențiu Leahu-Vlăducu [this message]

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