Memtest86 is thorough, standalone memory test for x86 systems. It is
a standalone program and can be loaded from either a disk partition via
lilo or a floppy disk. Memtest86 uses a "moving inversions" algorithm
that is proven to be effective in finding memory errors.  The BIOS based
memory test is just a quick check that will often miss many of the
failures that are detected by Memtest86.

The ELF version should be used for booting from grub,
and avoids the following errors:
"Error 7: Loading below 1MB is not supported"
"Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format"
"Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory"

• Anton Midyukov (maintainer)
• Ilya Mashkin
• Michael Shigorin
• Nikolay A. Fetisov
• Eugeny A. Rostovtsev (REAL)
• Alexey Tourbin
• Alex V. Myltsev
• Serge Pavlovsky
• Stanislav Ievlev

• memtest86+